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Asked: 2012-02-22 11:36:30 +0800 CST

Where is tigervnc-server package in ubuntu 11?

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Where is tigervnc-server package in ubuntu 11? What is instead?

UPDATE

tigervnc-server package allows to have system-wide configuration file /etc/sysconfig/vncservers file, where one can associate virtual desktop with user name. All these desktops run with system start even if main system starts without GUI.

Which of Ubuntu packages is equivalent to this?

UPDATE 2

SourceFourge page http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tigervnc/index.php?title=Main_Page of tigervnc does not contain the same as tigervnc-server package of Fedora contains. Specifically I can't find a support for autorunning screens from global config.

This site has a link which is said containing Ubuntu packages, but actually does not contain anything matching: http://winswitch.org/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/

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2 Answers

  1. If you don't have a specific binary requirement for TigerVNC, you could try one of the other VNC packages. Especially if you don't want to update the packages manually.

    Running Aptitude should show you the available packages if you're connected to the Internet on that server. aptitude search vnc

    Assuming you're using a recent Ubuntu release, the VNC4Server packages should be fine. Older releases such as 9.10 had a keyboard mapping problem in VNC4Server that caused us no end of issues and required use of TightVNC.

    If you wish to update packages manually and/or specifically need TigerVNC for its particular feature set from the TightVNC 4 branch, you should visit the Project page on SourceForge where a link to Ubuntu packages is provided.

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  2. They link to a list of debian packages on their website, which is a direct link to the repository. Here's how to add the repository for Ubuntu 12.04:

    curl https://winswitch.org/gpg.asc | sudo apt-key add -
echo deb http://winswitch.org/dists precise main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winswitch.list

    Then, sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install tigervnc-server

    For earlier or later Ubuntu versions, change precise accordingly

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