How To Install spice-vdagent-win-x64 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-vdagent-win-x64 on Rocky Linux 8. spice-vdagent-win-x64 is Spice agent MSI installers for Windows guests (64 bit)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-vdagent-win-x64 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is spice-vdagent-win-x64

Spice agent MSI installers for Windows guests (64 bit)

We can use yum or dnf to install spice-vdagent-win-x64 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-vdagent-win-x64.

Install spice-vdagent-win-x64 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-vdagent-win-x64 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spice-vdagent-win-x64

Install spice-vdagent-win-x64 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-vdagent-win-x64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spice-vdagent-win-x64

How To Uninstall spice-vdagent-win-x64 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the spice-vdagent-win-x64 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove spice-vdagent-win-x64

spice-vdagent-win-x64 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/spice/spice-vdagent-x64-0.10.0-5.msi

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-vdagent-win-x64 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.