Manually installing VNC^® Enterprise Edition for UNIX or Linux

You can install VNC Enterprise Edition from unpackaged binaries and, where appropriate, installation scripts (a tarball).

The following instructions apply to all UNIX and Linux platforms. Where an example is given, the syntax is valid for Ubuntu 8.10 Linux.

1. Open a Terminal window and switch to root, or to a user with equivalent permissions.
2. Extract and decompress the contents of the tarball, for example tar -xvzf <tarball>, where <tarball> is the full path to the downloaded .tar.gz file. A new sub-directory is created with the root name of the .tar.gz file.
3. Navigate to this newly-created directory and run the vncinstall script, for example ./vncinstall.

The vncinstall script installs programs into default system directories; examine the script for details. To specify different directories, run vncinstall with the following parameters:

vncinstall <program-dir> <manual-dir> <module-dir>

where <program-dir> is the full path to a directory for VNC programs, <manual-dir> is the full path to a directory for VNC man documentation pages, and <module-dir> is the full path to a directory for the vnc.so module. Note that all three parameters are mandatory; if you specify one you must specify them all.

When VNC Enterprise Edition has successfully installed you can delete the newly-created directory.