How to Install and Uninstall tightvncserver Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "tightvncserver" package

This tutorial shows how to install tightvncserver on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                tightvncserver
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "tightvncserver" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall tightvncserver on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                tightvncserver
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the tightvncserver package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: tightvncserver
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3.10-0ubuntu5
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Source: tightvnc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1847
Provides: vnc-server, xserver
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), perl:any, x11-common | xserver-common, x11-utils, xauth
Recommends: xfonts-base, x11-xserver-utils
Suggests: tightvnc-java
Filename: pool/universe/t/tightvnc/tightvncserver_1.3.10-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb
Size: 662900
MD5sum: 3af0020f4758752adf36718d190e6943
SHA1: 08d788330270d20ff8b13f9e9dde8066e71cdb2a
SHA256: d702f1e30e88f619a2eac9f2de7ade59d5954e346fa865f6cc499330f4376b7a
SHA512: ef4b2a529e33eb129e71f1cf11c2a5579c9ae8b6a91a8e5dcaaf16de05c35aa9fd02f4c1058135b213bbed6c0798b47a12489b5d243644d941efc7fc531c0a0c
Homepage: http://www.tightvnc.com
Description-en: virtual network computing server software
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.
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This package provides a server to which X clients can connect and the
server generates a display that can be viewed with a vncviewer.
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The difference between the tightvncserver and the normal vncserver is the
data encoding, optimized for low bandwidth connections. If the client do not
support jpeg or zlib encoding it can use the default one. Later versions of
vncserver (> 3.3.3r2) support a new automatic encoding that should be equally
good as the tightvnc encoding.
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Note: This server does not support or need a display. You need a vncviewer to
see something. However, this viewer may also be on a computer running other
operating systems in the local net.
Description-md5: 212aadc6932fc1ffc49df1c9619bc26a