VNC Viewer not installing in ubuntu

Question

I installed ubuntu in my virtual machine (Oracle Virtual box) and when i try to install VNC Viewer then it shows:

error message

when I try to search no applications are found.I could not figure what is wrong here.Any help is appreciated.

64 -rw-rw-r-- 1 john john 6723160 Mar 23 16:55 VNC-Viewer-6.0.2-Linux-x64 — John, Apr 01 '17 at 07:01
Do this chmod +x VNC-Viewer-6.0.2-Linux-x64, then try to install — George Udosen, Apr 01 '17 at 07:05
@George Thank you very much worked like a charm.Can you explain what was causing the error? — John, Apr 01 '17 at 07:10
You were supposed to make the file an executable file before using it. Glad it worked please accept my answer :) — George Udosen, Apr 01 '17 at 07:11
If you run ls -l VNC-Viewer-6.0.2-Linux-x64 again you will now see -rwxrwxr-x 1 george george 6723160 Apr 1 08:02 VNC-Viewer-6.0.2-Linux-x64*, note the x in the result. Meaning the file can now be executed — George Udosen, Apr 01 '17 at 07:14

George Udosen · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-01T12:02:16.510

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The process involves two steps:

Note: You don't install you just run it.

Source:

edited Apr 01 '17 at 12:02

answered Apr 01 '17 at 07:12

George Udosen

Yeah and good luck getting an icon in the damn launcher – wayofthefuture Sep 07 '17 at 20:43

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 16 '19 at 18:59

There are many VNC clients. Some have the same vncviewer executable. One is TigerVNC which is available in the package manager:

sudo apt install tigervnc-viewer
vncviewer <ip>:<display/port>

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