How To Install tightvncpasswd on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tightvncpasswd
on Debian 12.
What is tightvncpasswd
tightvncpasswd 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 package provides the vncpasswd tool mandatory for the tightvncserver and optional for the xtightvncviewer.
There are three methods to install tightvncpasswd
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 tightvncpasswd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tightvncpasswd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tightvncpasswd
Install tightvncpasswd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tightvncpasswd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tightvncpasswd
Install tightvncpasswd 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 tightvncpasswd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tightvncpasswd
How To Uninstall tightvncpasswd on Debian 12
To uninstall only the tightvncpasswd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tightvncpasswd
Uninstall tightvncpasswd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tightvncpasswd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tightvncpasswd
Remove tightvncpasswd Configurations and Data
To remove tightvncpasswd
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tightvncpasswd
Remove tightvncpasswd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tightvncpasswd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tightvncpasswd
Dependencies
tightvncpasswd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tightvncpasswd
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.