How To Install tigervnc-scraping-server on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-scraping-server on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tigervnc-scraping-server
tigervnc-scraping-server 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.
This package provides a VNC server that perform screen scraping of an already running X server to provide its VNC desktop. The VNC desktop can be viewed by any VNC viewer even on other operating systems.
Note: If you only want to scrape your local X11 server, you should consider the tigervnc-xorg-extension package. This package provides the vnc extension for your local X11 server. The usage of this extension is more efficient than a scraping vnc server.
There are three methods to install tigervnc-scraping-server 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-scraping-server 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-scraping-server using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tigervnc-scraping-server
Install tigervnc-scraping-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tigervnc-scraping-server using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tigervnc-scraping-server
Install tigervnc-scraping-server 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-scraping-server using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tigervnc-scraping-server
How To Uninstall tigervnc-scraping-server on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tigervnc-scraping-server package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tigervnc-scraping-server
Uninstall tigervnc-scraping-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tigervnc-scraping-server and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tigervnc-scraping-server
Remove tigervnc-scraping-server Configurations and Data
To remove tigervnc-scraping-server configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tigervnc-scraping-server
Remove tigervnc-scraping-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tigervnc-scraping-server configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tigervnc-scraping-server
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-scraping-server package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
