How To Install tigervnc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. tigervnc.x86_64 is A TigerVNC remote display system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `tigervnc.x86_64`

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is 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 contains a client which will allow you to connect to other desktops running a VNC server.

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

Install tigervnc.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 tigervnc.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tigervnc.x86_64

How To Uninstall tigervnc.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the tigervnc.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove tigervnc.x86_64

tigervnc.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/vncviewer
/usr/share/applications/vncviewer.desktop
/usr/share/doc/tigervnc-1.8.0
/usr/share/doc/tigervnc-1.8.0/README.txt
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/vncviewer.1.gz

References

tigervnc.x86_64 website

Summary

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