How To Install remote-logon-config-agent on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install remote-logon-config-agent
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install remote-logon-config-agent
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.