How To Install tigervnc-server-module on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-server-module on CentOS 8.
What is tigervnc-server-module
This package contains libvnc.so module to X server, allowing others to access the desktop on your machine.
We can use yum or dnf to install tigervnc-server-module on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tigervnc-server-module.
Install tigervnc-server-module 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-server-module using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tigervnc-server-module
Install tigervnc-server-module 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-server-module using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tigervnc-server-module
How To Uninstall tigervnc-server-module on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tigervnc-server-module package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tigervnc-server-module
tigervnc-server-module Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-libvnc.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/b4802d7b929f69286db6be3a26d96d0fc0cdf1
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libvnc.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-server-module on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.