How To Install spice-gtk3-vala on CentOS 8

spice-gtk3-vala is Vala bindings for the spice-gtk-3.0 library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk3-vala on CentOS 8.

What is spice-gtk3-vala

A module allowing use of the spice-gtk-3.0 widget from vala

We can use yum or dnf to install spice-gtk3-vala on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-gtk3-vala.

Install spice-gtk3-vala 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 spice-gtk3-vala using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spice-gtk3-vala

Install spice-gtk3-vala 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 spice-gtk3-vala using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spice-gtk3-vala

How To Uninstall spice-gtk3-vala on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the spice-gtk3-vala package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove spice-gtk3-vala

spice-gtk3-vala Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/vala/vapi/spice-client-glib-2.0.deps
/usr/share/vala/vapi/spice-client-glib-2.0.vapi
/usr/share/vala/vapi/spice-client-gtk-3.0.deps
/usr/share/vala/vapi/spice-client-gtk-3.0.vapi

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk3-vala on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.