How To Install x2goclient on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install x2goclient on CentOS 8.
What is x2goclient
X2Go is a server-based computing environment with - session resuming - low bandwidth support - session brokerage support - client-side mass storage mounting support - client-side printing support - audio support - authentication by smartcard and USB stick X2Go Client is a graphical client for the X2Go system. You can use it to connect to running sessions and start new sessions.
We can use yum or dnf to install x2goclient on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install x2goclient.
Install x2goclient 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 x2goclient using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install x2goclient
Install x2goclient 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 x2goclient using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install x2goclient
How To Uninstall x2goclient on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the x2goclient package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove x2goclient
x2goclient Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/x2goclient
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/78d3a9edfcea19ba7b4412c57b37909a2b19b2
/usr/share/applications/x2goclient.desktop
/usr/share/doc/x2goclient
/usr/share/doc/x2goclient/AUTHORS
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/x2goclient.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/x2goclient.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/x2goclient.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/x2goclient.png
/usr/share/licenses/x2goclient
/usr/share/licenses/x2goclient/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/x2goclient/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/x2goclient.1.gz
/usr/share/x2goclient
/usr/share/x2goclient/icons
/usr/share/x2goclient/icons/x2goclient.png
/usr/share/x2goclient/icons/x2goclient.xpm
/usr/share/x2goclient/icons/x2gosession.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install x2goclient on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.