How To Install spice-gtk-tools on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk-tools on CentOS 8.
What is spice-gtk-tools
Simple clients for interacting with SPICE servers. spicy is a client to a SPICE desktop server. spicy-screenshot is a tool to capture screen-shots of a SPICE desktop.
We can use yum or dnf to install spice-gtk-tools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-gtk-tools.
Install spice-gtk-tools 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-gtk-tools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spice-gtk-tools
Install spice-gtk-tools 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-gtk-tools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spice-gtk-tools
How To Uninstall spice-gtk-tools on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the spice-gtk-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spice-gtk-tools
spice-gtk-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/spicy
/usr/bin/spicy-screenshot
/usr/bin/spicy-stats
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/beafff7b279921541e06f06a47edb2d7ed37da
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/b38d64984583526e4d9a5c36a4cb8d96840220
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/a71db5ab8945d9169e1bcf4138b96f521fda71
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk-tools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.