How To Install tigervnc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc on CentOS 8.
What is tigervnc
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 or dnf to install tigervnc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tigervnc.
Install tigervnc on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install tigervnc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tigervnc
Install tigervnc on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install tigervnc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tigervnc
How To Uninstall tigervnc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tigervnc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tigervnc
tigervnc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/vncviewer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/76b03f5a367c702a4e2990f0e0c286a0d38b91
/usr/share/applications/vncviewer.desktop
/usr/share/doc/tigervnc
/usr/share/doc/tigervnc/README.rst
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/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/id/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/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/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tigervnc.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/vncviewer.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.