How To Install vino on CentOS 8

vino is A remote desktop system for GNOME

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vino on CentOS 8.

What is `vino`

Vino is a VNC server for GNOME. It allows remote users to connect to a running GNOME session using VNC.

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

Install vino 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 vino using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vino

Install vino 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 vino using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vino

How To Uninstall vino on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the vino package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove vino

vino Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/a241630a571777f142b6f343a04fc0a1ebda6f
/usr/lib/systemd/user/vino-server.service
/usr/libexec/vino-server
/usr/share/applications/vino-server.desktop
/usr/share/doc/vino
/usr/share/doc/vino/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/vino/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/vino/README
/usr/share/doc/vino/TODO
/usr/share/doc/vino/remote-desktop.txt
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Vino.enums.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Vino.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/vino
/usr/share/licenses/vino/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/vino.mo

References

vino website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vino on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.