How To Install xdmx-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xdmx-tools
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is xdmx-tools
xdmx-tools is:
This package provides a collection of tools used for administration of the Xdmx server; see the xdmx package for more information.
More information about X.Org can be found at: URL:https://www.x.org
This package is built from the X.org xserver module.
Package: xdmx-tools Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:1.20.9-2ubuntu1.2~20.04.2 Priority: optional Section: universe/x11 Source: xorg-server Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu X-SWAT [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 477 Depends: xdmx, libc6 (>= 2.14), libdmx1 (>= 1:1.1.4), libx11-6, libxaw7, libxt6 Filename: pool/universe/x/xorg-server/xdmx-tools_1.20.9-2ubuntu1.2~20.04.2_amd64.deb Size: 56168 MD5sum: 84a28c2d1ee53d969b0ff68c3c5e57a8 SHA1: e6c2b9c6fd7163e323eba610cb0e1beeded4acf7 SHA256: 093750788ba52f79e5fb6358c38eee564f1fdfc41c28eebd7e5d013c5590a4c1 SHA512: 10bcc87f36a5b47232bfef7470c00ea68cf61e9dc2420d31df62daba0cbfe40995976b6c75c04edbaa5d29bc9bff85d0547c8ac044b3eaa640b25018c107d6b7 Homepage: https://www.x.org/ Description-en: Distributed Multihead X tools This package provides a collection of tools used for administration of the Xdmx server; see the xdmx package for more information.
More information about X.Org can be found at: URL:https://www.x.org
This package is built from the X.org xserver module.
Package: xdmx-tools Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/x11 Source: xorg-server Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu X-SWAT [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 476 Depends: xdmx, libc6 (>= 2.14), libdmx1, libx11-6, libxaw7, libxt6 Filename: pool/universe/x/xorg-server/xdmx-tools_1.20.8-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 56248 MD5sum: 52c42fb685e46a16f0f0e4b4562c9e02 SHA1: 6c6309f2be8f07bb5e4b6a3fd18e39e549509445 SHA256: 5ffb0a4c1fc7f2ddb40a076dade362d7de9b5bb055b612fd8eaf4e93c0d177e0 Homepage: https://www.x.org/ Description-en: Distributed Multihead X tools This package provides a collection of tools used for administration of the Xdmx server; see the xdmx package for more information.
More information about X.Org can be found at: URL:https://www.x.org
This package is built from the X.org xserver module.
There are three methods to install xdmx-tools
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 xdmx-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xdmx-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xdmx-tools
Install xdmx-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xdmx-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xdmx-tools
Install xdmx-tools 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 xdmx-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xdmx-tools
How To Uninstall xdmx-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the xdmx-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xdmx-tools
Uninstall xdmx-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xdmx-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xdmx-tools
Remove xdmx-tools Configurations and Data
To remove xdmx-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xdmx-tools
Remove xdmx-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xdmx-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xdmx-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xdmx-tools
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.