How To Install gvncviewer on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gvncviewer on Debian 9.

What is gvncviewer

gvncviewer is:

It is built using coroutines, allowing it to be completely asynchronous while remaining single threaded. It supports RFB protocols 3.3 through 3.8 and the VeNCrypt authentication extension providing SSL/TLS encryption with x509 certificate authentication.

The core library is written in C and a binding for Python using PyGTK is available. The networking layer supports connections over both IPv4 and IPv6.

This package contains the VNC viewer and VNC capture utility.

There are three methods to install gvncviewer on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gvncviewer Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gvncviewer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gvncviewer

Install gvncviewer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gvncviewer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gvncviewer

Install gvncviewer Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gvncviewer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gvncviewer

How To Uninstall gvncviewer on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove gvncviewer

Uninstall gvncviewer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gvncviewer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gvncviewer

Remove gvncviewer Configurations and Data

To remove gvncviewer configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gvncviewer

Remove gvncviewer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gvncviewer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gvncviewer

Dependencies

gvncviewer have the following dependencies:

• libatk1.0-0
• libc6
• libcairo-gobject2
• libcairo2
• libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libgtk-vnc-2.0-0
• libgvnc-1.0-0
• libpango-1.0-0
• libpangocairo-1.0-0
• zlib1g

References

• gvncviewer website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gvncviewer package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.