How To Install Unified Remote Server (RPM) via Terminal

The RPM package of the server makes it easy to install Unified Remote Server on Linux using the RPM package manager. This is default on Red-Hat, Fedora, openSUSE, etc.

1

Download the package using wget or your preferred http client.

$ wget -O urserver.rpm http://www.unifiedremote.com/d/<id>

Replace <id> with the package you want to download:

  • linux-x64-rpm
  • linux-x86-rpm

Replace http://www. with http://http. if you get SSL errors.

2

Install the package using the rpm command.

$ sudo rpm -Uhv urserver.rpm

The server installed into the following path:

/opt/urserver/

Logs and settings are stored in:

~/.urserver/

3

The package includes a desktop entry for autostarting the server.

To manually start the server using the following command:

$ ./opt/urserver/urserver-start

Stop the server using the following command:

$ ./opt/urserver/urserver-stop

4

To uninstall the server run the following dpkg command:

$ sudo rpm -e urserver