How To Install virt-viewer on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-viewer in Fedora 36. virt-viewer is Virtual Machine Viewer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-viewer on Fedora 36.

What is `virt-viewer`

Virtual Machine Viewer provides a graphical console client for connecting to virtual machines. It uses the GTK-VNC or SPICE-GTK widgets to provide the display, and libvirt for looking up VNC/SPICE server details.

We can use yum or dnf to install virt-viewer on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install virt-viewer.

Install virt-viewer on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install virt-viewer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install virt-viewer

Install virt-viewer on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install virt-viewer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install virt-viewer

How To Uninstall virt-viewer on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the virt-viewer package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove virt-viewer

virt-viewer Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/remote-viewer
/usr/bin/virt-viewer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/1a154bc7136dcbf356db6b9cc7669589e8ce40
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/c24baf54faa43a57e07677b462c943c21da727
/usr/share/applications/remote-viewer.desktop
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/virt-viewer
/usr/share/doc/virt-viewer
/usr/share/doc/virt-viewer/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/virt-viewer/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/virt-viewer/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/virt-viewer/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/virt-viewer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/virt-viewer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/virt-viewer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/virt-viewer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/virt-viewer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/virt-viewer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/virt-viewer.svg
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/virt-viewer.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/remote-viewer.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-viewer.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/remote-viewer.appdata.xml
/usr/share/mime/packages/virt-viewer-mime.xml

References

virt-viewer website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-viewer on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).