[Spice-devel] Oracle Linux 9 support

[Victor Toso]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 08:47:58AM +0000, Maxim Iacob wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking to install spice-gtk to Oracle Linux 9.2 distribution, based on Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.2 (Plow).
> 
> Somehow this is not possible due to error:
> 
> ==================================================================
> $sudo dnf builddep spice-gtk
> 
> enabling proxyt-source repository
> enabling slacktechnologies_slack-source repository
> proxyt
> source                                                                                                                                                                                                      
> 817  B/s | 1.6 kB     00:02    
> slacktechnologies_slack                                                                                                                                                                                            
> 803  B/s | 1.8 kB     00:02    
> slacktechnologies_slack-source                                                                                                                                                                                     
> 414  B/s | 951  B     00:02    
> no package matched: spice-gtk
> Error: Some packages could not be found.

RHEL 9.2 does not have spice-gtk. You should raise this request
to Oracle Linux 9.2 and see if they want to support it.

> ==================================================================
> 
> Kindly let me know if there is any possible workaround to
> install it on Oracle Linux 9. I'm looking to access A Proxmox
> virtual machine via Virt-viewer and it looks spice-gtk is
> needed, otherwise I get "Unsupported graphic type 'spice'"
> error.
> 
> Appreciate any direction to make this work. :)

I'd recommend fetching rpm sources (e.g: from fedora) and doing
the build + installation.

Not much more I can help you with it, sadly.

Ah, using some flatpak with SPICE would be another alternative.

Cheers,
Victor
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