How To Install spice-glib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-glib.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. spice-glib.x86_64 is A GObject for communicating with Spice servers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-glib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `spice-glib.x86_64`

spice-client-glib-2.0 is a SPICE client library for GLib2.

We can use yum to install spice-glib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-glib.x86_64.

Install spice-glib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install spice-glib.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spice-glib.x86_64

How To Uninstall spice-glib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the spice-glib.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove spice-glib.x86_64

spice-glib.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/SpiceClientGLib-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libspice-client-glib-2.0.so.8
/usr/lib64/libspice-client-glib-2.0.so.8.6.0
/usr/libexec/spice-gtk-x86_64
/usr/libexec/spice-gtk-x86_64/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/spice-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/spice-gtk.mo
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.spice-space.lowlevelusbaccess.policy

References

spice-glib.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-glib.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.