I am using Ubuntu 15.10 and I installed prey successfully on it. Its CLI is working but I can't start the GUI. I followed this link but I got command not found error for

sudo /usr/lib/prey/platform/linux/prey-config.py

So how should I start prey GUI?

6 Answers

In a terminal window, run:

sudo /usr/lib/prey/current/bin/prey config gui

1

Please follow steps as mentioned in image to open Prey GUI.

After installing prey, launch application from terminal:-

1. go to /usr/lib/prey and then search ".py" without any quotation mark. You will see all .py files

2. Look for prey-config.py, right click on it and go to properties, copy location path.

3. open terminal, type:-

   sudo /PATH/to/prey-config.py

   It should look like as mentioned below-

   sudo /usr/lib/prey/versions/1.6.3/lib/conf/gui/linux/prey-config.py

4. GUI window will open, follow instructions.

1

This was taken from the Prey Website:

sudo /usr/lib/prey/current/bin/prey config gui -f

The -f forces the GUI to display.

2

Didn't load on my Linux Mint install.

I found the file under:

/usr/lib/prey/versions/1.5.1/lib/conf/gui/linux/

run prey-config.py as root and it should load.

Using the prey_1.5.1_amd64.deb package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) I found it at:

/usr/lib/prey/platform/linux/prey-config.py

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Update for Ubuntu 19.10 June 2020.

preyproject in ubuntu repository is old so you need to go to And download .deb file. And run/Install it.

After it is installed you should see service running:

$ systemctl |grep prey
prey-agent.service loaded active running The Prey daemon.

To configure prey you need to run the GUI. Prey is not added to path. Use dpkg -L or more specifically dpkg -L prey |grep bin/prey to look for a binary installed by prey.

$ dpkg -L prey |less
$ dpkg -L prey |grep bin/prey
/usr/lib/prey/versions/1.9.4/bin/prey
/usr/lib/prey/versions/1.9.4/bin/prey-user

So, we can run the GUI using that, like this:

$ sudo /usr/lib/prey/versions/1.9.4/bin/prey config gui
Firing up config GUI!

There is a symlink installed with the package

$ ls -al /usr/lib/prey/current
lrwxrwxrwx 1 prey root 28 Jun 18 13:29 /usr/lib/prey/current -> /usr/lib/prey/versions/1.9.4

So you can also run the GUI like this, and this works for any new version of prey installed/updated:

$ sudo /usr/lib/prey/current/bin/prey config gui
$ lsb_release -a
Description: Ubuntu 19.10
Codename: eoan

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