How To Install quicksynergy on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quicksynergy on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is quicksynergy
quicksynergy is:
QuickSynergy is a graphical interface (GUI) for easily configuring Synergy, an application that allows the user to share their mouse and keyboard between two or more computers.
Without the need for any external hardware, Synergy uses the TCP-IP protocol to share the resources, even between machines with different operating systems, such as Mac OS, Linux and Windows.
There are three methods to install quicksynergy on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install quicksynergy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install quicksynergy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install quicksynergy
Install quicksynergy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install quicksynergy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install quicksynergy
Install quicksynergy Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install quicksynergy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install quicksynergy
How To Uninstall quicksynergy on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the quicksynergy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove quicksynergy
Uninstall quicksynergy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall quicksynergy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove quicksynergy
Remove quicksynergy Configurations and Data
To remove quicksynergy configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge quicksynergy
Remove quicksynergy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove quicksynergy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge quicksynergy
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quicksynergy package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
