How To Install gvnc-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gvnc-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gvnc-tools.x86_64 is Command line VNC tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gvnc-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gvnc-tools.x86_64`

Provides useful command line utilities for interacting with VNC servers. Includes the gvnccapture program for capturing screenshots of a VNC desktop

We can use yum to install gvnc-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gvnc-tools.x86_64.

Install gvnc-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gvnc-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gvnc-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall gvnc-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gvnc-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gvnc-tools.x86_64

gvnc-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/gvnccapture
/usr/share/doc/gvnc-tools-0.7.0
/usr/share/doc/gvnc-tools-0.7.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gvnc-tools-0.7.0/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/gvnc-tools-0.7.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gvnc-tools-0.7.0/ChangeLog-old
/usr/share/doc/gvnc-tools-0.7.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gvnc-tools-0.7.0/README
/usr/share/man/man1/gvnccapture.1.gz

References

gvnc-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gvnc-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.