How To Install x2godesktopsharing on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install x2godesktopsharing on CentOS 7.

What is x2godesktopsharing

X2Go Desktop Sharing is an X2Go add-on tool that allows a user to grant other X2Go users access to the current session (shadow session support). The current session may be an X2Go session itself or simply a local X11 session.

We can use yum or dnf to install x2godesktopsharing on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install x2godesktopsharing.

Install x2godesktopsharing on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install x2godesktopsharing using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install x2godesktopsharing

Install x2godesktopsharing 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 x2godesktopsharing using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install x2godesktopsharing

How To Uninstall x2godesktopsharing on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the x2godesktopsharing package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove x2godesktopsharing

References

• x2godesktopsharing website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install x2godesktopsharing on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.