How To Install remotely on Fedora 34

remotely is Simple VNC viewer for the GNOME desktop environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install remotely on Fedora 34.

What is remotely

Remotely is a simple VNC viewer for the GNOME desktop environment. It supports common authentication methods. The display can be adjusted with three different modes so that the most optimal presentation is always possible, regardless of the remote display size.

We can use yum or dnf to install remotely on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install remotely.

Install remotely 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 remotely using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install remotely

Install remotely 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 remotely using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install remotely

How To Uninstall remotely on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the remotely package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove remotely

remotely Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/remotely
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/d20702affee9a33e168a96de574b6f89f04ff1
/usr/share/applications/de.haeckerfelix.Remotely.desktop
/usr/share/doc/remotely
/usr/share/doc/remotely/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/de.haeckerfelix.Remotely.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/de.haeckerfelix.Remotely.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/de.haeckerfelix.Remotely-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/remotely
/usr/share/licenses/remotely/COPYING
/usr/share/metainfo/de.haeckerfelix.Remotely.appdata.xml

References

Summary

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