How To Install tigervnc on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc in AlmaLinux 8. tigervnc is A TigerVNC remote display system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc on AlmaLinux 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 AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tigervnc.

Install tigervnc on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install tigervnc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tigervnc

Install tigervnc on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove tigervnc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.