How To Install synergy on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install synergy on CentOS 8.
What is synergy
Synergy lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers, where each computer has its own display. No special hardware is required, all you need is a local area network. Synergy is supported on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen.
We can use yum or dnf to install synergy on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install synergy.
Install synergy 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 synergy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install synergy
Install synergy 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 synergy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install synergy
How To Uninstall synergy on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the synergy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove synergy
synergy Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/synergy
/usr/bin/synergyc
/usr/bin/synergys
/usr/bin/syntool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/40068090fba98df175703efe41a1d363e7b6e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/fc74b171666d78045c145b698e36a931f613e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/88a9a41378ec2f9e5d3ffa43949bdcaa41dcdd
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/6f2c152469138386dd45de566b861e65c06db5
/usr/share/applications/synergy.desktop
/usr/share/doc/synergy
/usr/share/doc/synergy/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/synergy/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/synergy/README.md
/usr/share/doc/synergy/Readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/synergy/synergy.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/synergy/synergy.conf.example-advanced
/usr/share/doc/synergy/synergy.conf.example-basic
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/synergy.svg
/usr/share/man/man8/synergyc.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/synergys.8.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/synergy.appdata.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install synergy on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.