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Title: [Solved] tigervnc missing in the repo Tiny Core 12 x64
Post by: Santos on July 13, 2025, 07:40:31 PM

Hello

I'm trying to install tigervnc viewer in Tiny Core 12 x64 but is not available in the repo. In the x86 version it is available. Maybe I overlooked it but I'm not sure if I can get it from a previous version repo and install it. Please illuminate me. Thanks!

vinager  it is really not of my liking and has some quirks with the full screen mode which made it difficult to use (have to kill the process every time I want to exit fullscreen).

Title: Re: tigervnc missing in the repo Tiny Core 12 x64
Post by: Rich on July 13, 2025, 10:15:13 PM

Hi Santos
None of the x64 repos have ever had tigervnc-viewer.

According to:
http://tinycorelinux.net/12.x/x86/tcz/tigervnc-viewer.tcz.info
and:
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/tigervnc-viewer.tcz.info
The current version is 1.1.0.

If you want to try building it, a source directory can be found here:
http://tinycorelinux.net/6.x/x86/tcz/src/tigervnc-viewer/
It includes source file, build script, icon file (.png), and .desktop file.

You'll want to change these lines in tigervnc-viewer.build
From:

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export CFLAGS="-Os -pipe -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
export CXXFLAGS="-Os -pipe -fexceptions -fno-rtti -march=i486 -mtune=i686"To:

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export CFLAGS="-mtune=generic -Os -pipe"
export CXXFLAGS="-mtune=generic -Os -pipe"
You'll also want to install the following if they exist:

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libICE-dev.tcz
libSM-dev.tcz
libXext-dev.tcz

Title: Re: tigervnc missing in the repo Tiny Core 12 x64
Post by: Santos on July 17, 2025, 11:31:09 PM

Thanks, Rich.

I'll try to compile it, although I do see  remmina  available. I'll explore if it works as a replacement.

Is tigervnc a good vnc client, appears to be the in-the-middle option between remmina and vinagre according to Wikipedia. Should I stick to remmina?

EDIT:
Nope, remmina is seg faulting whenever I try to establish a connection to my vnc server.

Title: Re: tigervnc missing in the repo Tiny Core 12 x64
Post by: Santos on July 21, 2025, 12:58:05 AM

Ok, I went the lazy way and just ran tiger vnc viewer from an Alpine chroot. It's working. But I hope tigervnc could be incorporated into the x64 repo.

Thread can be marked as solved, thanks!

Title: Re: [Solved] tigervnc missing in the repo Tiny Core 12 x64
Post by: Rich on July 21, 2025, 08:11:24 AM

Hi Santos

Quote from: Santos on July 21, 2025, 12:58:05 AM

... Thread can be marked as solved, thanks!

Done.

Title: Re: [Solved] tigervnc missing in the repo Tiny Core 12 x64
Post by: Juanito on July 27, 2025, 06:34:28 AM

I took a look at this for tc-16.x x86_64, but the tigervnc viewer will only build against fltk-1.3 so I think it makes sense to wait until there is a version compatible with fltk-1.4.

Title: Re: [Solved] tigervnc missing in the repo Tiny Core 12 x64
Post by: Juanito on July 27, 2025, 08:45:40 AM

remmina updated in tc-16.x x86_64 repo and tested against piCore64 running x11vnc