How To Install spice-gtk3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk3.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. spice-gtk3.i686 is A GTK3 widget for SPICE clients

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `spice-gtk3.i686`

spice-client-glib-3.0 is a SPICE client library for Gtk3.

We can use yum to install spice-gtk3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-gtk3.i686.

Install spice-gtk3.i686 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-gtk3.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spice-gtk3.i686

How To Uninstall spice-gtk3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the spice-gtk3.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove spice-gtk3.i686

spice-gtk3.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/SpiceClientGtk-3.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so.5
/usr/lib/libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so.5.0.0
/usr/share/doc/spice-gtk3-0.35
/usr/share/doc/spice-gtk3-0.35/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/spice-gtk3-0.35/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/spice-gtk3-0.35/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/spice-gtk3-0.35/README
/usr/share/man/man1/spice-client.1.gz

References

spice-gtk3.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.