How To Install spice-gtk-tools on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk-tools on Rocky Linux 8. spice-gtk-tools is Spice-gtk tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk-tools on Rocky Linux 8.

What is spice-gtk-tools

Simple clients for interacting with SPICE servers. spicy is a client to a SPICE desktop server. spicy-screenshot is a tool to capture screen-shots of a SPICE desktop.

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

Install spice-gtk-tools 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 spice-gtk-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spice-gtk-tools

Install spice-gtk-tools 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 spice-gtk-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spice-gtk-tools

How To Uninstall spice-gtk-tools on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the spice-gtk-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove spice-gtk-tools

spice-gtk-tools Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/spicy
/usr/bin/spicy-screenshot
/usr/bin/spicy-stats
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/b9b0331593cee24404a86035fef51e726e960d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/3172fab2f90a4ea27ad5320a4f8a482f0dcda5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/aad38675c594ff0b89b951a82b1d7e472afc04

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk-tools on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.