Overview

Teaching: 20 min
Exercises: 15 min

Questions

• What software do you need on your machine to connect to VNC?

Objectives

• Install the TigerVNC client (viewer) packages

We have installed a window manager and VNC software on the remote VM. Now we need to install software on our local machine (laptop/desktop) to connect to the VNC server running on the VM.

We’ll be installing TigerVNC, which has packages for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.

Windows

The first thing we need to do is checkout the releases on the tigervnc GitHub page and find the highest version that is not ‘Beta’:

https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/releases

You will find a link to SourceForge for downloading that version for various platforms (e.g., for Windows, the version should look similar to vncviewer64-1.11.0.exe).

Install from the downloaded file.

Mac OSX

Similar to Windows above, we need to do is checkout the releases on the tigervnc GitHub page and find the highest version that is not ‘Beta’:

https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/releases

You will find a link to SourceForge for downloading that version for various platforms (e.g., for Mac, the version should look similar to TigerVNC-1.11.0.dmg).

Install from the downloaded file.

Linux

The package manager that comes with your flavour of Linux should be able to install a package for you, e.g.,

Linux Version	Install Command
Debian, Ubuntu	sudo apt-get install tigervnc-viewer
Fedora, CentOS, or RHEL	sudo yum install tigervnc
Gentoo	emerge -av net-misc/tigervnc

Key Points

• TigerVNC viewers are available for many popular platforms