Install and update the Linux Agent

Update only while idle

The installer refuses a running broker or legacy service before changing the host. Disconnect viewers normally, verify no active session, then explicitly stop the service named by the installer. For the broker:

sudo systemctl stop vdo-agent-broker.service

Rerun the pinned installer. A failed cutover restores previous local payload, service and GDM configuration state. Do not delete credentials, interrupt a viewer or repeatedly enroll the machine.

Rollback and removal

Retain the previous release's matching installer, payload and configuration. The new embedded-assets installer is not a universal downgrade tool for older binaries such as 0.18.10. Arrange an idle, reviewed host rollback using the previous matching setup.

Publication rollback changes catalogue/installer pointers without replacing installed hosts. The full per-distro lifecycle/rollback matrix remains unfinished.

For removal, arrange idle maintenance and review the installed broker, workers, GNOME and configuration state with the workspace admin. Do not apply a legacy user-service deletion recipe or erase credentials without preserving required recovery data.