How To Install spice-streaming-agent on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-streaming-agent on CentOS 8.
What is spice-streaming-agent
An agent, running on a guest, sending video streams of the X display to a remote client (over SPICE).
We can use yum or dnf to install spice-streaming-agent on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-streaming-agent.
Install spice-streaming-agent 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-streaming-agent using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spice-streaming-agent
Install spice-streaming-agent 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-streaming-agent using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spice-streaming-agent
How To Uninstall spice-streaming-agent on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the spice-streaming-agent package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spice-streaming-agent
spice-streaming-agent Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/xdg/autostart/spice-streaming.desktop
/usr/bin/spice-streaming-agent
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/60d5b56e3031d7906b181f65e97a09575ca0e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/97a9caa50de8a953c3de80efb1ccb7c67fddae
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-spice-guest-streaming.rules
/usr/lib64/spice-streaming-agent/plugins/gst-plugin.so
/usr/share/doc/spice-streaming-agent
/usr/share/doc/spice-streaming-agent/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/spice-streaming-agent/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/spice-streaming-agent/README
/usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/spice-streaming.desktop
/usr/share/man/man1/spice-streaming-agent.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-streaming-agent on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.