How To Install remote-logon-config-agent on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install remote-logon-config-agent on Debian 10.
What is remote-logon-config-agent
remote-logon-config-agent is:
This tiny Python tool is part of the Arctica Greeter display manager.
The remote-logon-config-agent fetches JSON based remote server information from a brokerage host (formerly known as UCCS, a service run by Canonical Ltd. around 2012-2014).
This tool gets used by the DBus service ‘remote-logon-service’. The retrieved information is then handed over by the DBus service to Arctica Greeter.
The retrieved information can be obtained from a remote desktop brokerage service like Arctica Server (with brokerage support) or from the X2Go Session Broker.
In Arctica Greeter, the logon information is presented to the user for starting up remote desktop sessions on Arctica, X2Go or RDP / Citrix servers.
There are three methods to install remote-logon-config-agent on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install remote-logon-config-agent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install remote-logon-config-agent using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install remote-logon-config-agent
Install remote-logon-config-agent Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install remote-logon-config-agent using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install remote-logon-config-agent
Install remote-logon-config-agent 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install remote-logon-config-agent using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install remote-logon-config-agent
How To Uninstall remote-logon-config-agent on Debian 10
To uninstall only the remote-logon-config-agent package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove remote-logon-config-agent
Uninstall remote-logon-config-agent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall remote-logon-config-agent and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove remote-logon-config-agent
Remove remote-logon-config-agent Configurations and Data
To remove remote-logon-config-agent configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge remote-logon-config-agent
Remove remote-logon-config-agent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove remote-logon-config-agent configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge remote-logon-config-agent
Dependencies
remote-logon-config-agent have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install remote-logon-config-agent package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.