How To Install nxagent on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nxagent
on Ubuntu.
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. 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
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, 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 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
Dependencies
nxagent have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nxagent
package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.