How To Install spice-gtk3 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk3 on Rocky Linux 8. spice-gtk3 is A GTK3 widget for SPICE clients

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk3 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `spice-gtk3`

spice-client-glib-3.0 is a SPICE client library for Gtk3.

We can use yum or dnf to install spice-gtk3 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-gtk3.

Install spice-gtk3 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-gtk3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spice-gtk3

Install spice-gtk3 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-gtk3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spice-gtk3

How To Uninstall spice-gtk3 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the spice-gtk3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove spice-gtk3

spice-gtk3 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/41d1782464b28532a466e3b45957395574b39c
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/SpiceClientGtk-3.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so.5
/usr/lib/libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so.5.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/272563e6f2fccbbb06ed4729ef343ba4e9ed23
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/SpiceClientGtk-3.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so.5
/usr/lib64/libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so.5.0.0

References

spice-gtk3 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk3 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.