How To Install tigervnc on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tigervnc.
Install tigervnc on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tigervnc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tigervnc
Install tigervnc on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tigervnc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tigervnc
How To Uninstall tigervnc on CentOS 7
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 CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.