How To Install gtk-vnc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk-vnc.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. gtk-vnc.i686 is A GTK2 widget for VNC clients

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk-vnc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gtk-vnc.i686`

gtk-vnc is a VNC viewer widget for GTK2. It is built using coroutines allowing it to be completely asynchronous while remaining single threaded.

We can use yum to install gtk-vnc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gtk-vnc.i686.

Install gtk-vnc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gtk-vnc.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gtk-vnc.i686

How To Uninstall gtk-vnc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gtk-vnc.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gtk-vnc.i686

gtk-vnc.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/GtkVnc-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgtk-vnc-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgtk-vnc-1.0.so.0.0.1

References

gtk-vnc.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk-vnc.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.