How To Install spice-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-server.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. spice-server.x86_64 is Implements the server side of the SPICE protocol

Introduction

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

What is `spice-server.x86_64`

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display system built for virtual environments which allows you to view a computing ‘desktop’ environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. This package contains the run-time libraries for any application that wishes to be a SPICE server.

We can use yum to install spice-server.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-server.x86_64.

Install spice-server.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-server.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spice-server.x86_64

How To Uninstall spice-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove spice-server.x86_64

spice-server.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libspice-server.so.1
/usr/lib64/libspice-server.so.1.12.4
/usr/share/doc/spice-server-0.14.0
/usr/share/doc/spice-server-0.14.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/spice-server-0.14.0/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/spice-server-0.14.0/README
/usr/share/doc/spice-server-0.14.0/spice.cnf.sample

References

spice-server.x86_64 website

Summary

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