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  • 1.  Tightvnc and vnc (with no details) is confusing

    Posted Fri July 17, 2020 05:48 AM
    yum search for vnc shows tightvnc-server.ppc and plain vnc.ppc
    What is the vnc.ppc? 
    The description says Virtual Network Computing = not helpful.
    Where does this version come from?

    $ yum install vnc.ppc
    tries to install tightvnc.ppc
    so I can't install vnc.ppc = confusing.

    See below:

    # yum search vnc
    =============================== N/S Matched: vnc ===============================
    tightvnc-server.ppc : TightVNC server
    tightvnc.ppc : A remote display system.
    vnc.ppc : Virtual Network Computing

    Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything.
    #
    # yum install vnc.ppc
    Setting up Install Process
    Package vnc is obsoleted by tightvnc, trying to install tightvnc-1.3.10-1.ppc instead
    Resolving Dependencies
    --> Running transaction check
    ---> Package tightvnc.ppc 0:1.3.10-1 will be installed
    --> Processing Dependency: libjpeg for package: tightvnc-1.3.10-1.ppc
    --> Running transaction check
    ---> Package libjpeg.ppc 0:9c-1 will be installed
    --> Finished Dependency Resolution

    Dependencies Resolved

    ================================================================================
    Package Arch Version Repository Size
    ================================================================================
    Installing:
    tightvnc ppc 1.3.10-1 AIX_Toolbox 56 k
    Installing for dependencies:
    libjpeg ppc 9c-1 AIX_Toolbox 1.6 M

    Transaction Summary
    ================================================================================
    Install 2 Packages

    Total download size: 1.6 M
    Installed size: 1.6 M
    Is this ok [y/N]:

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    Cheers, Nigel Griffiths
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  • 2.  RE: Tightvnc and vnc (with no details) is confusing

    Posted Fri July 17, 2020 07:04 AM
    "vnc" was a older Unix based package (from AT & T). The development stopped long back ( year 2000 itself). http://cam-orl.co.uk/vnc
    Recent times , Tightvnc is the popular opensource tool that provides VNC capabilities. Other distros ( like fedora., etc) obsoleted vnc with the Tightvnc. So we also followed the same approach, obsoleting vnc with Tightvnc.

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    Ayappan P
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  • 3.  RE: Tightvnc and vnc (with no details) is confusing

    Posted Fri July 17, 2020 10:16 AM
    I think the confusion is yum is listing vnc.ppc but when trying to install vnc.ppc it install tightvnc.
    We will correct our repo to display right information to not to confuse.

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    SANKET RATHI
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