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.
Gotta say, this is *such* an unintuitive set of package names. Someone should file a bug if one hasn’t been already..
Hi,
The result on either “sudo apt-get install tightvncserver” or “sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer” is: “E: Unable to fetch some archives, may be run apt-get update or try with – -fix-missing”.
Any idea what’s going on? Why is this reply? And mostly what can I do?
Nice to see someone presenting information the way it needs to be. Many people in the linux community seem to be able to tell you everything except what you need to do to resolve your conundrum.
It would be nice if they followed suit and presented information in simple, progressive steps, or as a simple lead such as this.
Thankyou – it is not often I am driven to leave a comment in places like this.
E: Invalid operation xtightvncviewer
I am getting only these results when i try xtightvnc and tightvnc
Got the installation right but can’t log in to other tight vnc computers what am I missing
Still unable to locate the package.
Comment :Doug on 6/13/2006 at 5:45 am said:
Worked man !!
if it doesn’t work and you are using Ubuntu
ensure you have the xfce4 desktop environment and have root privileges then type
sudo apt-get install xfce4
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tightvncserver
sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer
or do as Doug said and find your own flavor.
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