How To Install libvncserver on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvncserver
on Fedora 34.
What is libvncserver
LibVNCServer makes writing a VNC server (or more correctly, a program exporting a frame-buffer via the Remote Frame Buffer protocol) easy. It hides the programmer from the tedious task of managing clients and compression schemata. libvncserver 0.9.13 10.fc34 x86_64 300 k libvncserver-0.9.13-10.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library to make writing a VNC server easy http GPLv2+ LibVNCServer makes writing a VNC server (or more correctly, a program exporting a frame-buffer via the Remote Frame Buffer protocol) easy. It hides the programmer from the tedious task of managing clients and compression schemata.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libvncserver
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libvncserver.
Install libvncserver on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install libvncserver
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libvncserver
Install libvncserver on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install libvncserver
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libvncserver
How To Uninstall libvncserver on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the libvncserver
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libvncserver
libvncserver Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/507fe9773bd6be4c188c29c6fc14264d7d3b1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/776b264fac19fb792b42256082e61ab6ee442e
/usr/lib/libvncclient.so.0.9.13
/usr/lib/libvncclient.so.1
/usr/lib/libvncserver.so.0.9.13
/usr/lib/libvncserver.so.1
/usr/share/doc/libvncserver
/usr/share/doc/libvncserver/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvncserver/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvncserver/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/libvncserver/README.md
/usr/share/doc/libvncserver/TODO.md
/usr/share/licenses/libvncserver
/usr/share/licenses/libvncserver/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/a94e33dbf2ef508fd20fe9c46c8a36d24456f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/7869e06f2fa0ce69b8f125accb80338a7e97dc
/usr/lib64/libvncclient.so.0.9.13
/usr/lib64/libvncclient.so.1
/usr/lib64/libvncserver.so.0.9.13
/usr/lib64/libvncserver.so.1
/usr/share/doc/libvncserver
/usr/share/doc/libvncserver/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libvncserver/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libvncserver/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/libvncserver/README.md
/usr/share/doc/libvncserver/TODO.md
/usr/share/licenses/libvncserver
/usr/share/licenses/libvncserver/COPYING
References
- [libvncserver website](http://libvnc.github.io/ http://libvnc.github.io/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvncserver
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.