How To Install spice-server on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-server on CentOS 7.
What is spice-server
The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display system built for virtual environments which allows you to view a computing ‘desktop’ environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. This package contains the run-time libraries for any application that wishes to be a SPICE server.
We can use yum or dnf to install spice-server on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-server.
Install spice-server on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install spice-server using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spice-server
Install spice-server 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 spice-server using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spice-server
How To Uninstall spice-server on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the spice-server package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spice-server
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-server on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.