How To Install spice-streaming-agent on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-streaming-agent on CentOS 7. spice-streaming-agent is SPICE streaming agent

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-streaming-agent on CentOS 7.

What is spice-streaming-agent

An agent, running on a guest, sending video streams of the X display to a remote client (over SPICE).

We can use yum or dnf to install spice-streaming-agent on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-streaming-agent.

Install spice-streaming-agent 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-streaming-agent using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spice-streaming-agent

Install spice-streaming-agent 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-streaming-agent using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spice-streaming-agent

How To Uninstall spice-streaming-agent on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove spice-streaming-agent

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-streaming-agent on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.