How To Install spice-vdagent on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-vdagent on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is spice-vdagent
spice-vdagent is:
spice-vdagent is the spice agent for Linux, it is used in conjunction with spice-compitable hypervisor, its feature includs: * Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse lag) this is handled by the daemon by feeding mouse events into the kernel via uinput. This will only work if the active X-session is running a spice-vdagent process so that its resolution can be determined. * Automatic adjustment of the X-session resolution to the client resolution * Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X-session and the client
There are three methods to install spice-vdagent 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 spice-vdagent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spice-vdagent using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spice-vdagent
Install spice-vdagent Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spice-vdagent using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spice-vdagent
Install spice-vdagent 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 spice-vdagent using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spice-vdagent
How To Uninstall spice-vdagent on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the spice-vdagent package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spice-vdagent
Uninstall spice-vdagent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spice-vdagent and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spice-vdagent
Remove spice-vdagent Configurations and Data
To remove spice-vdagent configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spice-vdagent
Remove spice-vdagent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spice-vdagent configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spice-vdagent
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-vdagent package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
