How To Install gnome-remote-desktop on CentOS 8

gnome-remote-desktop is GNOME Remote Desktop screen share service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-remote-desktop on CentOS 8.

What is gnome-remote-desktop

GNOME Remote Desktop is a remote desktop and screen sharing service for the GNOME desktop environment.

We can use yum or dnf to install gnome-remote-desktop on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-remote-desktop.

Install gnome-remote-desktop on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-remote-desktop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-remote-desktop

Install gnome-remote-desktop on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-remote-desktop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-remote-desktop

How To Uninstall gnome-remote-desktop on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gnome-remote-desktop package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-remote-desktop

gnome-remote-desktop Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/b25e593fd9ca7cb1798531d473b40530cc148d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-remote-desktop.service
/usr/libexec/gnome-remote-desktop-daemon
/usr/share/doc/gnome-remote-desktop
/usr/share/doc/gnome-remote-desktop/README
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.remote-desktop.enums.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.remote-desktop.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-remote-desktop
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-remote-desktop/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-remote-desktop on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.