How To Install amora-cli on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install amora-cli on Ubuntu 18.04. amora-cli is use a bluetooth device as X remote control (commandline tool)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install amora-cli on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is amora-cli

amora-cli 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 commandline version of the daemon (formerly called amora-server) 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-cli 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-cli 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-cli using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install amora-cli

Install amora-cli Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install amora-cli using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install amora-cli

Install amora-cli 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-cli using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install amora-cli

How To Uninstall amora-cli on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the amora-cli package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove amora-cli

Uninstall amora-cli And Its Dependencies

To uninstall amora-cli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove amora-cli

Remove amora-cli Configurations and Data

To remove amora-cli configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge amora-cli

Remove amora-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove amora-cli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge amora-cli

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install amora-cli package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.