How To Install tigervnc-viewer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-viewer on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tigervnc-viewer
tigervnc-viewer 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 client for X. With this you can connect to a VNC server and display its content. There are VNC servers available for other operating systems.
There are three methods to install tigervnc-viewer 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-viewer 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-viewer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tigervnc-viewer
Install tigervnc-viewer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tigervnc-viewer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tigervnc-viewer
Install tigervnc-viewer 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-viewer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tigervnc-viewer
How To Uninstall tigervnc-viewer on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tigervnc-viewer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tigervnc-viewer
Uninstall tigervnc-viewer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tigervnc-viewer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tigervnc-viewer
Remove tigervnc-viewer Configurations and Data
To remove tigervnc-viewer configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tigervnc-viewer
Remove tigervnc-viewer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tigervnc-viewer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tigervnc-viewer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-viewer package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
