How To Install synergy on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install synergy on Rocky Linux 8. synergy is Share mouse and keyboard between multiple computers over the network

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install synergy on Rocky Linux 8.

What is synergy

Synergy lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers, where each computer has its own display. No special hardware is required, all you need is a local area network. Synergy is supported on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen.

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

Install synergy 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 synergy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install synergy

Install synergy 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 synergy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install synergy

How To Uninstall synergy on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the synergy package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove synergy

synergy Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/synergy
/usr/bin/synergyc
/usr/bin/synergys
/usr/bin/syntool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/40068090fba98df175703efe41a1d363e7b6e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/fc74b171666d78045c145b698e36a931f613e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/88a9a41378ec2f9e5d3ffa43949bdcaa41dcdd
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/6f2c152469138386dd45de566b861e65c06db5
/usr/share/applications/synergy.desktop
/usr/share/doc/synergy
/usr/share/doc/synergy/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/synergy/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/synergy/README.md
/usr/share/doc/synergy/Readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/synergy/synergy.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/synergy/synergy.conf.example-advanced
/usr/share/doc/synergy/synergy.conf.example-basic
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/synergy.svg
/usr/share/man/man8/synergyc.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/synergys.8.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/synergy.appdata.xml

References

Summary

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