How To Install tigervnc-tools on Debian 12

Learn how to install tigervnc-tools on Debian 12 with this tutorial. tigervnc-tools is Virtual network computing; Tools for both clients and servers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-tools on Debian 12.

What is tigervnc-tools

tigervnc-tools is:

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system that allows you to view a computing `desktop’ environment not only on the machine where it is running but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. For this purpose, it implements a client/server model.

This package provides the vncpasswd tool.

There are three methods to install tigervnc-tools on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tigervnc-tools Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tigervnc-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tigervnc-tools

Install tigervnc-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tigervnc-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tigervnc-tools

Install tigervnc-tools Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install tigervnc-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tigervnc-tools

How To Uninstall tigervnc-tools on Debian 12

To uninstall only the tigervnc-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tigervnc-tools

Uninstall tigervnc-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tigervnc-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tigervnc-tools

Remove tigervnc-tools Configurations and Data

To remove tigervnc-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tigervnc-tools

Remove tigervnc-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tigervnc-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tigervnc-tools

Dependencies

tigervnc-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.