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…