How To Install vinagre on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install vinagre on CentOS 7. vinagre is VNC client for GNOME

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vinagre on CentOS 7.

What is vinagre

Vinagre is a VNC client for the GNOME desktop. With Vinagre you can have several connections open simultaneously, bookmark your servers thanks to the Favorites support, store the passwords in the GNOME keyring, and browse the network to look for VNC servers. Apart from the VNC protocol, vinagre supports Spice and RDP. Vinagre is a VNC client for the GNOME desktop. With Vinagre you can have several connections open simultaneously, bookmark your servers thanks to the Favorites support, store the passwords in the GNOME keyring, and browse the network to look for VNC servers. Apart from the VNC protocol, vinagre supports Spice and RDP.

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

Install vinagre on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install vinagre using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vinagre

Install vinagre 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 vinagre using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vinagre

How To Uninstall vinagre on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove vinagre

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vinagre on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.