2/17/2006
TightVNC on Ubuntu
In case like me, you were looking to install the TightVNC viewer and/or server on Ubuntu and your first guess didn’t work:
$ sudo apt-get install tightvnc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Couldn't find package tightvnc
try these:
$ sudo apt-get install tightvncserver $ sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer
Also see: http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/source/tightvnc
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In case you haven’t discovered this handy trick already – you can use ‘apt-cache search’ to find packages pretty easily:
dmaxwell@hades:~$ apt-cache search tightvnc
tightvncserver – virtual network computing server software
xtightvncviewer – virtual network computing client software for X
xvncviewer – Virtual network computing client software for X
tightvnc-java – TightVNC java applet and command line program
vnc-java – VNC java applet and command line program
dmaxwell@hades:~$ apt-cache search –names-only tightvnc
tightvncserver – virtual network computing server software
xtightvncviewer – virtual network computing client software for X
tightvnc-java – TightVNC java applet and command line program
dmaxwell@hades:~$
The first uses the supplied argument as a regex, and searches package descriptions and names. The second with ‘–names-only’ searches only the package names. See apt-cache (8) for much more you can do with this. Debian’s apt- package utilities are great time-savers.
thanks dude, it worked like a charm…
Wow just wanted to say thanks! i was not to sure on how to install tightvnc on my ubuntu computer and i done a google search and your site came up straight away with the correct method ! cheers buddy!
Thanks also, perfect!
google search led me here, and install for xtightvncviewer worked like a charm. now to figure out how to actually run it…
@matt
just run “xtightvncviewer” on any console, terminal or kicker applet. I installed and worked nice, too bad you have to manually ser the ip each time u use it. Also de scrollbars does not work nicely on Xubuntu 8.10 (humm vinagre does not even show the scroll bars either).. but tight is faster than vinagre
thanks! spent hours trying to figure this out till i found this page.
Works like a charm thank you very much! Can anyone tell me how i run the server as a service on Ubuntu 8.10?
Thank a lot guys !!! working fine.