How To Install vinagre on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vinagre on Debian 9.
What is vinagre
vinagre is:
Vinagre is a remote desktop client integrated into the GNOME Desktop.
With Vinagre you can have several connections open simultaneously, bookmark your servers thanks to the Favorites support, store the passwords in the GNOME keyring, and browse the network to look for VNC servers.
Supported protocols are VNC, SSH, and RDP.
There are three methods to install vinagre on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vinagre Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vinagre using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vinagre
Install vinagre Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vinagre using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vinagre
Install vinagre 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install vinagre using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vinagre
How To Uninstall vinagre on Debian 9
To uninstall only the vinagre package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vinagre
Uninstall vinagre And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vinagre and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vinagre
Remove vinagre Configurations and Data
To remove vinagre configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vinagre
Remove vinagre configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vinagre configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vinagre
Dependencies
vinagre have the following dependencies:
- libavahi-common3
- libavahi-gobject0
- libavahi-ui-gtk3-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libfreerdp-core1.1
- libfreerdp-gdi1.1
- libfreerdp-locale1.1
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libgtk-vnc-2.0-0
- libsecret-1-0
- libspice-client-glib-2.0-8
- libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5
- libtelepathy-glib0
- libvte-2.91-0
- libxml2
- dconf-gsettings-backend
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vinagre package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.