How To Install amora-applet on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install amora-applet on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is amora-applet
amora-applet is:
Amora (A mobile remote assistant) is an application that enables you to control your desktop using your mobile phone. It uses bluetooth to send mouse and keyboard events to the X session. With it, you can control your presentations, movies or any other application which mainly uses mouse and cursor keys.
Amora also has a screenshot feature, where you can see a thumbnail of the currently focused window on the mobile phone.
Currently only Symbian Series 60 mobile phones are supported. A Java client implementation is under development. A proof of concept client for Linux based mobile device like the Nokia Internet Tablets and the OpenMoko FreeRunner is available.
This package contains the Qt-based system tray applet version of the daemon running on the to be remote controlled computer. The client has to be installed on the mobile phone and is not contained in the package. It can be downloaded from the home page of the project.
There are three methods to install amora-applet 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 amora-applet Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install amora-applet using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install amora-applet
Install amora-applet Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install amora-applet using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install amora-applet
Install amora-applet 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 amora-applet using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install amora-applet
How To Uninstall amora-applet on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the amora-applet package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove amora-applet
Uninstall amora-applet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall amora-applet and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove amora-applet
Remove amora-applet Configurations and Data
To remove amora-applet configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge amora-applet
Remove amora-applet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove amora-applet configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge amora-applet
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install amora-applet package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
