How To Install gnome-remote-desktop on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-remote-desktop on Rocky Linux 8. gnome-remote-desktop is GNOME Remote Desktop screen share service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-remote-desktop on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/d59a04c47b0638c91c0a7baf53e63e2164cbf9
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.