How To Install spice-gtk-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. spice-gtk-tools.x86_64 is Spice-gtk tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `spice-gtk-tools.x86_64`

Simple clients for interacting with SPICE servers. spicy is a client to a SPICE desktop server. spicy-screenshot is a tool to capture screen-shots of a SPICE desktop.

We can use yum to install spice-gtk-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-gtk-tools.x86_64.

Install spice-gtk-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install spice-gtk-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spice-gtk-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall spice-gtk-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the spice-gtk-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove spice-gtk-tools.x86_64

spice-gtk-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/spicy
/usr/bin/spicy-screenshot
/usr/bin/spicy-stats

References

spice-gtk-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-gtk-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.