How To Install libvncserver on Fedora 34

libvncserver is Library to make writing a VNC server easy Library to make writing a VNC server easy

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

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvncserver on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.