How To Install nxagent on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nxagent on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nxagent
nxagent is:
NX is a software suite which implements very efficient compression of the X11 protocol. This increases performance when using X applications over a network, especially a slow one.
nxagent is a nested Xserver providing NX transport of X sessions. The application is based on the well known Xnest “nested” server. nxagent, like Xnest, is an X server for its own clients, and at the same time, an X client for a system’s local X server.
The main scope of nxagent is to eliminate X round-trips or transform them into asynchronous replies. nxagent works together with nxproxy. nxproxy itself does not make any effort to minimize round-trips by itself, this is demanded of nxagent.
Being an X server, nxagent is able to resolve all the property/atoms related requests locally, ensuring that the most common source of round-trips are nearly reduced to zero.
There are three methods to install nxagent on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nxagent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nxagent using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nxagent
Install nxagent Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nxagent using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nxagent
Install nxagent 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 nxagent using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nxagent
How To Uninstall nxagent on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nxagent package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nxagent
Uninstall nxagent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nxagent and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nxagent
Remove nxagent Configurations and Data
To remove nxagent configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nxagent
Remove nxagent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nxagent configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nxagent
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nxagent package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
