How To Install remmina-plugin-spice on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install remmina-plugin-spice on Debian 10.
What is remmina-plugin-spice
remmina-plugin-spice is:
Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travellers, who need to work with lots of remote computers in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks.
Remmina supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistent user interface.
Currently RDP, VNC, SPICE, NX, XDMCP, EXEC and SSH are supported.
This package contains the Spice plugin for Remmina.
There are three methods to install remmina-plugin-spice on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install remmina-plugin-spice Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install remmina-plugin-spice using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install remmina-plugin-spice
Install remmina-plugin-spice Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install remmina-plugin-spice using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install remmina-plugin-spice
Install remmina-plugin-spice Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install remmina-plugin-spice using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install remmina-plugin-spice
How To Uninstall remmina-plugin-spice on Debian 10
To uninstall only the remmina-plugin-spice package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove remmina-plugin-spice
Uninstall remmina-plugin-spice And Its Dependencies
To uninstall remmina-plugin-spice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove remmina-plugin-spice
Remove remmina-plugin-spice Configurations and Data
To remove remmina-plugin-spice configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge remmina-plugin-spice
Remove remmina-plugin-spice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove remmina-plugin-spice configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge remmina-plugin-spice
Dependencies
remmina-plugin-spice have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libspice-client-glib-2.0-8
- libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5
- remmina
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install remmina-plugin-spice package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.