How To Install tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64 is A minimal installation of TigerVNC server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64`

The VNC system allows you to access the same desktop from a wide variety of platforms. This package contains minimal installation of TigerVNC server, allowing others to access the desktop on your machine.

We can use yum to install tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64.

Install tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64 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 tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64

How To Uninstall tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64

tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/Xvnc
/usr/bin/vncconfig
/usr/bin/vncpasswd
/usr/share/man/man1/Xvnc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vncconfig.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vncpasswd.1.gz

References

tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-server-minimal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.