How To Install tightvncpasswd on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tightvncpasswd on Ubuntu.
What is tightvncpasswd
tightvncpasswd 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 the vncpasswd tool mandatory for the tightvncserver and optional for the xtightvncviewer.
There are three methods to install tightvncpasswd on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tightvncpasswd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tightvncpasswd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tightvncpasswd
Install tightvncpasswd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tightvncpasswd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tightvncpasswd
Install tightvncpasswd 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 tightvncpasswd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tightvncpasswd
How To Uninstall tightvncpasswd on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the tightvncpasswd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tightvncpasswd
Uninstall tightvncpasswd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tightvncpasswd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tightvncpasswd
Remove tightvncpasswd Configurations and Data
To remove tightvncpasswd configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tightvncpasswd
Remove tightvncpasswd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tightvncpasswd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tightvncpasswd
Dependencies
tightvncpasswd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tightvncpasswd package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.