How To Install tigervnc-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-common
on Ubuntu 18.04.
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.
There are three methods to install tigervnc-common
on Ubuntu 18.04. 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 update
After updating apt database, We can install tigervnc-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tigervnc-common
Install tigervnc-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tigervnc-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tigervnc-common
Install tigervnc-common 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install tigervnc-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tigervnc-common
How To Uninstall tigervnc-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tigervnc-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tigervnc-common
Uninstall tigervnc-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tigervnc-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tigervnc-common
Remove tigervnc-common Configurations and Data
To remove tigervnc-common
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tigervnc-common
Remove 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-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-common
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.