How To Install libspice-server1 on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libspice-server1 on Ubuntu.

What is `libspice-server1`

libspice-server1 is:

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.

There are three methods to install libspice-server1 on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libspice-server1 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libspice-server1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libspice-server1

Install libspice-server1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libspice-server1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libspice-server1

Install libspice-server1 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libspice-server1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libspice-server1

How To Uninstall libspice-server1 on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libspice-server1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libspice-server1

Uninstall libspice-server1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libspice-server1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libspice-server1

Remove libspice-server1 Configurations and Data

To remove libspice-server1 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libspice-server1

Remove libspice-server1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libspice-server1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libspice-server1

Dependencies

libspice-server1 have the following dependencies:

References

libspice-server1 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libspice-server1 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.