Introduction
In Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 (OEL 6.4) 64-bit edition , the installation of vnc server package (RPM) is not very straight forward. In the blog post, we will explain about all the RPMs required for setup of vncserver utility in OEL 6.4
The vnc and vnc-server RPMs are not enough
1) Login as root
2) yum install vnc (installs tigervnc RPM)
3) yum install vnc-server (installs tigervnc-server-module RPM)
4) vncserver (Attempt to start vncserver service. But you will receive vncserver: command not found error message)
The vnc and vnc-server RPMs alone are not sufficient. You must also install tigervnc-server RPM explicity (the 3rd vnc server related RPM)
5) yum install tigervnc-server (This is the RPM that installs the vncserver utility in the path)
Conclusion
The yum utility seems to favor tigervnc software by default as it automatically downloads and installs tigervnc. As seen above, the number of RPMs needed for setting vncserver is not straightforward and you have to install the three RPMs above in that order.
