Information about the package, virt-viewer, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The virt-viewer package is designed for, Virtual Machine Viewer.
Package Name:
virt-viewer
Summary:
Virtual Machine Viewer
Description:
Virtual Machine Viewer provides a graphical console client for connecting to virtual machines. It uses the GTK-VNC or SPICE-GTK widgets to provide the display, and libvirt for looking up VNC/SPICE server details.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.0
Release:
18.el6
Size:
342 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the virt-viewer package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install virt-viewer
This command will install virt-viewer on the server.
yum remove virt-viewer
This command will un-install virt-viewer on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove virt-viewer, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove virt-viewer
This command will un-install virt-viewer on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove virt-viewer when using the -y flag.
yum update virt-viewer
This command will update virt-viewer to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove virt-viewer, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update virt-viewer
This command will update virt-viewer to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove virt-viewer when using the -y flag.
yum info virt-viewer
This command will show you core information about the virt-viewer package.
yum deplist virt-viewer
This command will show you the dependencies for virt-viewer. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update virt-viewer
This command will check if there is an update waiting on virt-viewer. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.