How To Install vino on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vino on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is vino
vino is:
VNC is a protocol that allows remote display of a user’s desktop. This package provides a VNC server that integrates with GNOME, allowing you to export your running desktop to another computer for remote use or diagnosis. Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: vino Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.22.0-5ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 396 Depends: libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-glib1 (>= 0.6.16), libc6 (>= 2.15), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.8.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.5), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libminiupnpc17 (>= 1.9.20140610), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7), libsm6, libx11-6, libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxtst6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend Recommends: gvfs Suggests: gnome-control-center Breaks: gnome-control-center (« 1:3.13.2) Filename: pool/main/v/vino/vino_3.22.0-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 125440 MD5sum: 8533a2381eed7127ceb3f3931c223f0b SHA1: 713cae1e893ed268a6725414abc4794dbf3bd162 SHA256: a45c52338ae8c5cb29b6ed093fcad2334c6c3694dcb2ddb873848f508c8da193 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vino Description-en: VNC server for GNOME VNC is a protocol that allows remote display of a user’s desktop. This package provides a VNC server that integrates with GNOME, allowing you to export your running desktop to another computer for remote use or diagnosis. Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install vino on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vino Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vino using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vino
Install vino Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vino using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vino
Install vino 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 vino using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vino
How To Uninstall vino on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the vino package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vino
Uninstall vino And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vino and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vino
Remove vino Configurations and Data
To remove vino configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vino
Remove vino configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vino configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vino
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vino package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.