How To Install virt-viewer on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-viewer
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is virt-viewer
Virtual Machine Viewer provides a graphical console client for connecting to virtual machines. It uses the GTK-VNC or SPICE-GTK widgets to provide the display, and libvirt for looking up VNC/SPICE server details.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install virt-viewer
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install virt-viewer.
Install virt-viewer on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install virt-viewer
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install virt-viewer
Install virt-viewer on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install virt-viewer
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install virt-viewer
How To Uninstall virt-viewer on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the virt-viewer
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove virt-viewer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-viewer
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.