How To Install spice-gtk-tools on CentOS 8

spice-gtk-tools is Spice-gtk tools

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.