How To Install nxdialog on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nxdialog on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nxdialog
nxdialog 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.
nxdialog adds dialog windows/menus to nxagent. They get triggered by certain actions within the NX Agent Xserver.
There are three methods to install nxdialog 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 nxdialog Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nxdialog using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nxdialog
Install nxdialog Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nxdialog using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nxdialog
Install nxdialog 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 nxdialog using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nxdialog
How To Uninstall nxdialog on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nxdialog package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nxdialog
Uninstall nxdialog And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nxdialog and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nxdialog
Remove nxdialog Configurations and Data
To remove nxdialog configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nxdialog
Remove nxdialog configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nxdialog configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nxdialog
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nxdialog package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
