How To Install spice-gtk on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk on Rocky Linux 8. spice-gtk is A GTK+ widget for SPICE clients

Introduction

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

What is `spice-gtk`

Client libraries for SPICE desktop servers.

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

Install spice-gtk 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 spice-gtk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spice-gtk

Install spice-gtk 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 spice-gtk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spice-gtk

How To Uninstall spice-gtk on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove spice-gtk

spice-gtk Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/spice-gtk
/usr/share/doc/spice-gtk/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/spice-gtk/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/spice-gtk/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/spice-gtk/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/spice-client.1.gz

References

spice-gtk website

Summary

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