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Expand Up @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is one of the common tools used to connect to a

This guide provides information about how to set up VNC on a remote Arm Linux machine.

This installation only works on newer versions of Ubuntu and Debian. It was successfully tested on **Ubuntu 22.04** and is known to fail on **Ubuntu 20.04**.
This installation only works on newer versions of Ubuntu and Debian. It was successfully tested on Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04.

## What is VNC?

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Use `sudo` or root privileges because this file is in a system directory.

If your username is not `ubuntu` change the `User` value to match your username after you create the new file.

```ini
[Unit]
Description=Remote desktop service (VNC)
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[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```

The following commands are for any Linux distribution that uses `systemd`.

To start the VNC service:
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