How To Install tigervnc-tools on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-tools
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 Ubuntu 22.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, 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 Ubuntu 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-tools
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.