How To Install spice-protocol on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-protocol on CentOS 8.
What is spice-protocol
Header files describing the spice protocol and the para-virtual graphics card QXL.
We can use yum or dnf to install spice-protocol on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-protocol.
Install spice-protocol 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-protocol using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spice-protocol
Install spice-protocol 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-protocol using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spice-protocol
How To Uninstall spice-protocol on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the spice-protocol package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spice-protocol
spice-protocol Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/spice-1
/usr/include/spice-1/spice
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/barrier.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/end-packed.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/enums.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/ipc_ring.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/macros.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/protocol.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/qxl_dev.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/qxl_windows.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/start-packed.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/stats.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/stream-device.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/types.h
/usr/include/spice-1/spice/vd_agent.h
/usr/share/doc/spice-protocol
/usr/share/doc/spice-protocol/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/spice-protocol/README.md
/usr/share/pkgconfig/spice-protocol.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-protocol on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.