How To Install x2godesktopsharing on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install x2godesktopsharing on CentOS 8.
What is x2godesktopsharing
X2Go Desktop Sharing is an X2Go add-on tool that allows a user to grant other X2Go users access to the current session (shadow session support). The current session may be an X2Go session itself or simply a local X11 session.
We can use yum or dnf to install x2godesktopsharing on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install x2godesktopsharing.
Install x2godesktopsharing 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 x2godesktopsharing using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install x2godesktopsharing
Install x2godesktopsharing 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 x2godesktopsharing using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install x2godesktopsharing
How To Uninstall x2godesktopsharing on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the x2godesktopsharing package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove x2godesktopsharing
x2godesktopsharing Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/x2godesktopsharing
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/76acf6dec2e234249f55f5351fa1d62ca9271a
/usr/share/applications/x2godesktopsharing.desktop
/usr/share/doc/x2godesktopsharing
/usr/share/doc/x2godesktopsharing/ChangeLog
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/x2godesktopsharing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/x2godesktopsharing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/x2godesktopsharing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/x2godesktopsharing.png
/usr/share/licenses/x2godesktopsharing
/usr/share/licenses/x2godesktopsharing/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/x2godesktopsharing.1.gz
/usr/share/x2go/versions/VERSION.x2godesktopsharing
/usr/share/x2godesktopsharing
/usr/share/x2godesktopsharing/icons
/usr/share/x2godesktopsharing/icons/x2godesktopsharing.xpm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install x2godesktopsharing on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.