TightVNC Walk Through

[NelsonB.]

Hi all,

I am familiar with UltraVNC. I have it setup and working on my windows computers with the router setup (ports needed are open) and I also use DynDNS for my public IP.

I have read some posted "Tutorials" for TightVNC, but they are all in Chinese to me.

It looks like UltraVNC doesn't support Linux, so I would like to try TightVNC.

http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html says:

Platform: Unix / Linux
File: tightvnc-1.3.9_unixsrc.tar.bz2
Description: Unix source code in Tar+Bzip2 archive

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Platform: Unix / Linux
File: tightvnc-1.3.9_unixsrc.tar.gz
Description: Unix source code in Tar+Gzip archive

Which one should I install?
Whatever you guys suggest, how on Earth do I install it? What do I suppose to do with the file?

If someone could please walk me through it step by step.
Bear with me guys, I am new to Linux so English please, not Chinese

I have Kubuntu 8.10
The idea is to be able to remotely access my Kubuntu box from anywhere.

Thanks in advance.

[Nate]

Re: TightVNC Walk Through

Use Adept, don't compile the source code. Search for tightvnc or tightvncserver and that should get you started.

[NelsonB.]

Re: TightVNC Walk Through

I'll give that a try and see what happens.

Thanks for your response.