How To Install tightvnc-java on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tightvnc-java on Kali Linux. tightvnc-java is TightVNC java applet and command line program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tightvnc-java on Kali Linux.

What is tightvnc-java

tightvnc-java is:

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which 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.

This is the vnc java applet files that the tightvncserver can distribute to the client.

There are three methods to install tightvnc-java on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tightvnc-java Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tightvnc-java

Install tightvnc-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tightvnc-java

Install tightvnc-java Using aptitude

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install tightvnc-java

How To Uninstall tightvnc-java on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the tightvnc-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tightvnc-java

Uninstall tightvnc-java And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tightvnc-java and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tightvnc-java

Remove tightvnc-java Configurations and Data

To remove tightvnc-java configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tightvnc-java

Remove tightvnc-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tightvnc-java

Dependencies

tightvnc-java have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tightvnc-java package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.