How To Install spice-gtk3 on CentOS 8

spice-gtk3 is A GTK3 widget for SPICE clients A GTK3 widget for SPICE clients

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk3 on CentOS 8.

What is spice-gtk3

spice-client-glib-3.0 is a SPICE client library for Gtk3. spice-gtk3 0.38 6.el8 x86_64 76 k spice-gtk-0.38-6.el8.src.rpm appstream A GTK3 widget for SPICE clients http LGPLv2+ spice-client-glib-3.0 is a SPICE client library for Gtk3.

We can use yum or dnf to install spice-gtk3 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-gtk3.

Install spice-gtk3 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-gtk3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spice-gtk3

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

sudo yum -y install spice-gtk3

How To Uninstall spice-gtk3 on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove spice-gtk3

spice-gtk3 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/3d5d2172a53d47fb402d8220a9d9984fd126bc
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/SpiceClientGtk-3.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so.5
/usr/lib64/libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/3ae5a81f645319a1f017f99770495df11ef732
/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

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk3 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.