How To Install xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64 is XSpice is an X server that can be accessed by a Spice client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64`

XSpice is both an X and a Spice server.

We can use yum to install xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64.

Install xorg-x11-server-Xspice.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 xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64

How To Uninstall xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64

xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/X11/spiceqxl.xorg.conf
/usr/bin/Xspice
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/spiceqxl_drv.so
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-server-Xspice-0.1.5
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-server-Xspice-0.1.5/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-server-Xspice-0.1.5/README
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-server-Xspice-0.1.5/README.xspice
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-server-Xspice-0.1.5/spiceqxl.xorg.conf.example

References

xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-server-Xspice.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.