How To Install tigervnc-common on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-common on Kali Linux.
What is tigervnc-common
tigervnc-common is:
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, 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.
It is implemented in a client/server model. This package provides the vncpasswd and vncconfig tools as well as the common infrastructure for tigervnc-scraping-server and tigervnc-standalone-server packages.
There are three methods to install tigervnc-common on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tigervnc-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tigervnc-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tigervnc-commonInstall tigervnc-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tigervnc-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tigervnc-commonInstall tigervnc-common Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tigervnc-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tigervnc-commonHow To Uninstall tigervnc-common on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the tigervnc-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tigervnc-commonUninstall tigervnc-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tigervnc-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tigervnc-commonRemove tigervnc-common Configurations and Data
To remove tigervnc-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tigervnc-commonRemove tigervnc-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tigervnc-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tigervnc-commonDependencies
tigervnc-common have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.