How To Install tigervnc on CentOS 8

tigervnc is A TigerVNC remote display system

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.