How To Install spice-glib on CentOS 8

spice-glib is A GObject for communicating with Spice servers A GObject for communicating with Spice servers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-glib on CentOS 8.

What is spice-glib

spice-client-glib-2.0 is a SPICE client library for GLib2. spice-glib 0.38 6.el8 x86_64 385 k spice-gtk-0.38-6.el8.src.rpm appstream A GObject for communicating with Spice servers http LGPLv2+ spice-client-glib-2.0 is a SPICE client library for GLib2.

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

Install spice-glib on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install spice-glib

Install spice-glib on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install spice-glib

How To Uninstall spice-glib on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove spice-glib

spice-glib Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/38c61d2876ed9b87e12790d43abacffcdab25b
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/f0df7c2f9447b2fc4218f5e4ce583c0555075a
/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/cs/LC_MESSAGES/spice-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/spice-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/spice-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/spice-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/spice-gtk.mo
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.spice-space.lowlevelusbaccess.policy
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/606a6f959dc7894db5c4a7a1a0383cc4a8df4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/8409c058de8ffebf0af8b40e7137a80be0e97d
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/SpiceClientGLib-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libspice-client-glib-2.0.so.8
/usr/lib/libspice-client-glib-2.0.so.8.6.0
/usr/libexec/spice-gtk-i386
/usr/libexec/spice-gtk-i386/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/spice-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/spice-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/spice-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/spice-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/spice-gtk.mo
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.spice-space.lowlevelusbaccess.policy

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-glib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.