X2Go in Andromeda?

Marty McSly · 2026-01-19 02:00

I'm trying to follow the instructions at httpscolonslashslashwww.q4os.org/dqa004.html to set up remote access to a machine running Andromeda.

At Item 2, the instruction is "Launch X2Go Server installation from the Q4OS Software Centre and follow setup instructions." However, X2Go doesn't appear in the list of available apps in the Software Centre.

Does Andromeda still support X2Go or is it now deprecated? If the latter, what is my best option for remote sessions like X or RDP?

hchiper · 2026-01-19 10:10

X2go is available in Debian repositories, so it is available for Q4OS too.
If it is not present in Software Centre, to install it you may have a look at the "Debian" or "Ubuntu / Debian" sections at
- https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:inst … x2goserver
- https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:inst … x2goclient

Marty McSly · 2026-01-28 03:14

Fair enough, I understand the process well enough.

But I thought that the "approved" or "official" way of updating Q4OS was to do a clean install of a new system, rather than a do-release-upgrade? And the preferred way of installing apps is to use Flatpaks?

I'm new to this way of working with Linux (having previously had Ubuntu from 8.04 through 14.04 as my daily driver, but reverting to Windoze due to other family members being tied down to it). I was under the impression that installing packages in other ways would potentially cause undesired results.

hchiper · 2026-01-28 08:49

Marty McSly wrote:

But I thought that the "approved" or "official" way of updating Q4OS was to do a clean install of a new system, rather than a do-release-upgrade?

It depends on what you mean with "upgrade".

If you just want to keep your Q4OS installation up to date, you can simply install "Update Manager" from Q4OS Software Centre. It will run in the background and warn you when such updates are available: an icon will appear in the tray; simply click it, it will update your system.
Note that if you want to do the same from the command line, you'll need first to update the available packages database present on your disk with the command `sudo apt update`, but this will not update the packages themselves. To really update the packages the command is `sudo apt upgrade`.
None of this will change your Q4OS version; if you have installed Q4OS 6.x, you will be left with Q4OD 6.y (y >= x). This way, you'll always stay with the same major version Q4OS 6.
If you want to change from one major version to another one, e. g. from Q4OS 5 to Q4OS 6, then, yes, the recommended way is to make a clean install.
As you may have noticed, the words update and upgrade are sometimes confusing.

And the preferred way of installing apps is to use Flatpaks?

The order of preference is as follows:

Install packages from Q4OS Software Centre (packages sometimes tweaked for Q4OS specifically)
Install packages using the command `sudo apt install <package_name>`. This is as safe as the previous method. It will take the desired package from official repositories, provided they exist there.
If they aren't, you can download a <some_package.deb> file that matches your Q4OS/Debian version and architecture (i386/x64) and install it with `sudo apt install <path/to/some_package.deb>` (where <path/to/> needs to be at least a dot & slash [./] if it is in the current directory, which is known as ./) This may offer less safety guarantees, such as versions conflicts, not to speak of malicious software. It is therefore important to use reliable .deb files from reliable sources.

I can't say much about Flatpack because I never used it.

Another option are Appimages which, I think, are like "portable apps" in MS Windows world: all needed dependencies/libraries are embedded. Just execute it, no need to install. One drawback is that Appimages don't share dependencies, each one embeds the full set of dependencies it requires, no matter they can already be present in another Appimage. This can lead to a huge disk usage if you use a lot of Appimages. Here too it is important to download from reliable sources.

q4osteam · 2026-01-28 09:45

@hchiper
Yes, well explained, thanks

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X2Go in Andromeda?

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Re: X2Go in Andromeda?

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