How To Install spice-streaming-agent on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-streaming-agent
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is spice-streaming-agent
An agent, running on a guest, sending video streams of the X display to a remote client (over SPICE).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install spice-streaming-agent
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-streaming-agent.
Install spice-streaming-agent 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-streaming-agent
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spice-streaming-agent
Install spice-streaming-agent 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-streaming-agent
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spice-streaming-agent
How To Uninstall spice-streaming-agent on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the spice-streaming-agent
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spice-streaming-agent
spice-streaming-agent Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/xdg/autostart/spice-streaming.desktop
/usr/bin/spice-streaming-agent
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/458dc196ac3a1881ea3ea881a7c09e31fee23c
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/8e1ab2ef94cad99a08ce22328ee1aa1d1b4a3a
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-spice-guest-streaming.rules
/usr/lib64/spice-streaming-agent/plugins/gst-plugin.so
/usr/share/doc/spice-streaming-agent
/usr/share/doc/spice-streaming-agent/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/spice-streaming-agent/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/spice-streaming-agent/README
/usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/spice-streaming.desktop
/usr/share/man/man1/spice-streaming-agent.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-streaming-agent
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.