How To Install spice-client-gtk 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 spice-client-gtk on Ubuntu.

What is `spice-client-gtk`

spice-client-gtk is:

Simple clients for interacting with SPICE servers. This package includes:

spicy - GTK+ based SPICE client tool spicy-screenshot - SPICE screen-shot capture tool spicy-stats - SPICE connection details display tool

There are three methods to install spice-client-gtk 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 spice-client-gtk Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install spice-client-gtk using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install spice-client-gtk

Install spice-client-gtk Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install spice-client-gtk using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install spice-client-gtk

Install spice-client-gtk 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 spice-client-gtk using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spice-client-gtk

How To Uninstall spice-client-gtk on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the spice-client-gtk package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove spice-client-gtk

Uninstall spice-client-gtk And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spice-client-gtk

Remove spice-client-gtk Configurations and Data

To remove spice-client-gtk configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge spice-client-gtk

Remove spice-client-gtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove spice-client-gtk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spice-client-gtk

Dependencies

spice-client-gtk have the following dependencies:

References

spice-client-gtk website

Summary

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