Completely confused by VNC packaging in Fedora 10

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 20:29:11 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Jud Craft<craftjml at gmail.com> wrote:
> The VNC packages in F11 actually use TigerVNC.  TigerVNC is based on
> RealVNC, so they just dropped in the program and didn't change the
> names.
>
> There is no plain Tightvnc or Realvnc in F11 -- the TigerVNC package
> just uses the generic "vncserver" and "vncviewer" names.
>
> The VNC packaging is definitely confusing.
>
> Just search for the VNC packages and install them -- the descriptions
> won't mention TigerVNC or TightVNC either, but you'll know once you
> install them.  There should be a "TigerVNC Client" under your
> Applications->Internet menu afterwards.


Thanks.

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