How to install Nomachine in Ubuntu

To install Nomachine in Ubuntu

Nomachine is an open source application tool that is used for taking the remote connections of the client machines as like VNC server. It uses “ NX” protocols for remote connections through nomachine and “ ssh” for secure shell login to client systems via text mode. Installation of Nomachine in Ubuntu is explained in this manual.

To install Nomachine

Navigate to the nomachine' s official site and download the required architecture of your system.
https://www.nomachine.com/

Here we are using two machines as follows.

Server

IP Address - 192.168.5.146
Operating System - Ubuntu 15.10

Client

IP Address - 192.168.5.147
Operating System - Ubuntu 16.04

Download and install the nomachine package in both the server and client separately as follows.

root@linuxhelp:~# wget http://download.nomachine.com/download/5.1/Linux/nomachine_5.1.44_1_amd64.deb 
--2016-09-20 04:12:02--  http://download.nomachine.com/download/5.1/Linux/nomachine_5.1.44_1_amd64.deb
Resolving download.nomachine.com (download.nomachine.com)... 83.222.233.16
Connecting to download.nomachine.com (download.nomachine.com)|83.222.233.16|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 37788656 (36M) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘ nomachine_5.1.44_1_amd64.deb’ 
nomachine_5.1.44_1_amd64.deb                  100%[=================================================================================================> ]  36.04M   684KB/s   in 58s    
2016-09-20 04:13:01 (638 KB/s) - ‘ nomachine_5.1.44_1_amd64.deb’  saved [37788656/37788656]

Run the following command to install the downloaded debian package.

root@linuxhelp:~# ls 
Desktop  Documents  Downloads  examples.desktop  Music  nomachine_5.1.44_1_amd64.deb  Pictures  Public  Templates  Videos
root@linuxhelp:~# dpkg -i nomachine_5.1.44_1_amd64.deb  
Selecting previously unselected package nomachine.
(Reading database ... 176941 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack nomachine_5.1.44_1_amd64.deb ...
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NX>  700 Installing: nxserver version: 5.1.44.
NX>  700 Using installation profile: Ubuntu.
NX>  700 Install log is: /usr/NX/var/log/nxinstall.log.
NX>  700 Creating configuration in: /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg.
NX>  700 Install completed at: Tue Sep 20 04:22:41 2016.
NX>  700 NoMachine was configured to run the following services:
NX>  700 NX service on port: 4000

Open the unity dashboard and search for NoMachine app.

The main page of NoMachine appears.

Nomachine automatically find the clients system from your network. Click connect to connect to your client machine.

Complete the Authentication process.

Enter the Name and Host name for your connection.

Login to your client machine by entering the username and password.