This tutorial will walk you through the process of installing Tiger VNC on NetBSD.
Visit the Tiger VNC website at http://tigervnc.org/ and download the package for NetBSD.
Save the package to a directory on your NetBSD system.
Before installing Tiger VNC, you must ensure that your system has the necessary dependencies.
To install dependencies, run the following command:
pkgin install cmake libX11 libXtst libxt xproto
Next, extract the Tiger VNC package by running the following command:
tar -xvf <path_to_tigervnc_package.tar.gz>
Replace <path_to_tigervnc_package.tar.gz> with the actual path to the Tiger VNC package you downloaded in Step 1.
Now, navigate to the extracted Tiger VNC package directory and build it:
cd <tigervnc_package_directory>
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
Once the build is complete, you can install Tiger VNC by running the following command:
make install
To configure Tiger VNC, you need to create a configuration file. You can use the default configuration file as a starting point and modify it as needed:
cp /usr/local/share/tigervnc/vncserver-x11.sample /usr/local/etc/tigervnc/
mv /usr/local/etc/tigervnc/vncserver-x11.sample /usr/local/etc/tigervnc/vncserver-x11.conf
To start the Tiger VNC server, run the following command:
vncserver
You can now connect to the Tiger VNC server from another machine using a VNC viewer. Connect to the NetBSD system's IP address or hostname, followed by the port number specified in the Tiger VNC server output.
For example, if the Tiger VNC server output shows:
New 'X' desktop is tiger:1
You can connect to the VNC server at tiger:5901.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed and configured Tiger VNC on NetBSD!
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