How To Install gtk-vnc2 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk-vnc2 on Rocky Linux 8. gtk-vnc2 is A GTK3 widget for VNC clients

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk-vnc2 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `gtk-vnc2`

gtk-vnc is a VNC viewer widget for GTK3. It is built using coroutines allowing it to be completely asynchronous while remaining single threaded.

We can use yum or dnf to install gtk-vnc2 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gtk-vnc2.

Install gtk-vnc2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gtk-vnc2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gtk-vnc2

Install gtk-vnc2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gtk-vnc2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gtk-vnc2

How To Uninstall gtk-vnc2 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the gtk-vnc2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gtk-vnc2

gtk-vnc2 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/05ad19dfcf07eaadeac6f1259f98db0d2ae573
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/GtkVnc-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgtk-vnc-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgtk-vnc-2.0.so.0.0.2
/usr/share/vala/vapi/gtk-vnc-2.0.deps
/usr/share/vala/vapi/gtk-vnc-2.0.vapi
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/60936b2abd8c712f0c8c1474961b39f020c404
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/GtkVnc-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgtk-vnc-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgtk-vnc-2.0.so.0.0.2
/usr/share/vala/vapi/gtk-vnc-2.0.deps
/usr/share/vala/vapi/gtk-vnc-2.0.vapi

References

gtk-vnc2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk-vnc2 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.