How To Install spice-protocol on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-protocol on Rocky Linux 8. spice-protocol is Spice protocol header files

Introduction

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

What is spice-protocol

Header files describing the spice protocol and the para-virtual graphics card QXL.

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

Install spice-protocol 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-protocol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spice-protocol

Install spice-protocol 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-protocol using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spice-protocol

How To Uninstall spice-protocol on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove spice-protocol

spice-protocol Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/spice-1
/usr/include/spice-1/spice
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/barrier.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/end-packed.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/enums.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/ipc_ring.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/macros.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/protocol.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/qxl_dev.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/qxl_windows.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/start-packed.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/stats.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/stream-device.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/types.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/vd_agent.h
/usr/share/doc/spice-protocol
/usr/share/doc/spice-protocol/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/spice-protocol/README.md
/usr/share/pkgconfig/spice-protocol.pc

References

Summary

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