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Xenshine
 Post subject: Removing VNC Server
PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:01 am 
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I'm having problems removing vnc server. I type the following

apt-get remove vncserver

Then get
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done


Why hasn't it been removed? I've not had much experience with apt before.
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jdlspeedy
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:36 am 
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vncserver might not be the name of the package, i ran apt-cache:

Code:
# apt-cache search vnc | grep vnc | grep server
libvncserver-dev - API to write one's own vnc server - development files
libvncserver0 - API to write one's own vnc server
libvncserver0-dbg - debugging symbols for libvncserver
gtkvncviewer - Small GTK+ tool to connect to VNC servers
linuxvnc - VNC server to allow remote access to a tty
tightvncserver - virtual network computing server software
vnc4-common - Virtual network computing server software
vnc4server - Virtual network computing server software
vncsnapshot - A utility that takes JPEG snapshots from VNC servers
x11vnc - VNC server to allow remote access to an existing X session


Not knowing what package was installed you want the following command:
apt-get remove linuxvnc tightvncserver vnc4server

That should take care of the removal of vnc server
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dcelasun
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:22 pm 
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Also, if you are removing it because of configuration errors, using "remove" and then "install" won't make any difference. You should use "apt-get purge [package name]".
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Xenshine
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:36 pm 
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Thanks everyone. I should have been typing vnc4server! Got a bit confused. :(
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