How To Install gtk-recordmydesktop on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk-recordmydesktop on CentOS 7. gtk-recordmydesktop is GUI Desktop session recorder with audio and video

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk-recordmydesktop on CentOS 7.

What is gtk-recordmydesktop

Graphical frontend for the recordmydesktop desktop session recorder. recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for linux that attempts to be easy to use, yet also effective at it’s primary task. As such, the program is separated in two parts; a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encoding and an interface that exposes the program functionality in a usable way.

We can use yum or dnf to install gtk-recordmydesktop on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gtk-recordmydesktop.

Install gtk-recordmydesktop on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install gtk-recordmydesktop

Install gtk-recordmydesktop on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install gtk-recordmydesktop

How To Uninstall gtk-recordmydesktop on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the gtk-recordmydesktop package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gtk-recordmydesktop

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk-recordmydesktop on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.