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GTK client/libraries for SPICE. Version 0.42 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-21.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install spice-gtk

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install spice-gtk

MacPorts ports tree · gnome/spice-gtk/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add spice-glib

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · spice-glib · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install gir1.2-spiceclientglib-2.0

Debian stable package indexes · gir1.2-spiceclientglib-2.0 · source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install mingw32-spice-glib

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · mingw32-spice-glib · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#spice-gtk

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/sp/spice-gtk/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S spice-gtk

Arch Linux sync databases · spice-gtk · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install libspice-client-glib-2_0-8

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · libspice-client-glib-2_0-8 · source: download.opensuse.org

overview

Package summary

GTK client/libraries for SPICE

Commands and aliases

  • spicy
  • spicy-screenshot
  • spicy-stats

history

Project history and usage

spice-gtk is the GTK client library and widget for SPICE remote desktop sessions. It gives Linux desktop and virtualization tools a reusable client-side component for connecting to SPICE-enabled virtual machines.

Project history

The SPICE project documentation frames SPICE as an open remote computing solution for remote display and device access, with a 2009 Red Hat copyright on the introductory architecture document. The download page describes spice-gtk as a GTK+3 SPICE widget with glib-based protocol objects, a GTK display widget, and Python and Vala bindings.

Adoption history

spice-gtk became important through virtualization desktops rather than through end-user CLI fame. The official download page names virt-manager and GNOME Boxes as applications that embed the widget, and recommends virt-viewer as the client application for connecting to virtual machines using SPICE.

How it is used

Packaged installations commonly expose tools such as spicy, spicy-screenshot, and spicy-stats, while applications can use the library and widget directly. Users encounter it when opening a VM console, testing SPICE display behavior, or integrating SPICE support into a GTK application.

Why package nerds care

Package nerds care about spice-gtk because it sits in the practical dependency chain for desktop virtualization: QEMU/KVM hosts, SPICE protocol components, virt-viewer, virt-manager, GNOME Boxes, USB redirection, and guest tools all meet at package boundaries. Keeping spice-gtk current affects whether graphical VM consoles, clipboard support, and device redirection work cleanly on distro desktops.

Timeline

  • 2009: Red Hat copyright appears on the SPICE introductory documentation.
  • 2010s: spice-gtk becomes the GTK client widget used by virtualization tools such as virt-manager and GNOME Boxes.
  • 2020s: Official downloads continue to publish spice-gtk source releases from freedesktop.org GitLab.

Related projects

  • SPICE protocol and spice-server provide the remote display protocol and server side.
  • virt-viewer is the recommended client application.
  • virt-manager and GNOME Boxes embed or use SPICE client functionality.
  • QEMU commonly provides the virtualization host side for SPICE sessions.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:client

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 21 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 7 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
spicycliglobal executable
spicy-screenshotcliglobal executable
spicy-statscliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version0.42
manager updated2026-06-21
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://www.spice-space.org

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:spice-gtk
Version0.42
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/spice-gtk
Homepagehttps://www.spice-space.org
Repositoryhttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk
Upstream docshttps://www.spice-space.org/
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause
Source archivehttps://www.spice-space.org/download/gtk/spice-gtk-0.42.tar.xz
Last updated2026-06-21T15:28:56Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciescairo, gdk-pixbuf, gettext, glib, gobject-introspection, gstreamer, gtk+3, harfbuzz, jpeg-turbo, json-glib, libepoxy, libsoup, libusb, libx11, lz4, openssl@3, opus, phodav, pixman, spice-protocol, usbredir
Build dependenciesgettext, gobject-introspection, meson, ninja, pkgconf, python@3.14, vala
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namespice-gtk
Version Scheme0
Revision3
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

gir1.2-spiceclientglib-2.0 0.42-3

GObject for communicating with Spice servers (GObject-Introspection)

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install gir1.2-spiceclientglib-2.0
  • Section: introspection
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 4 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: gir1.2-spiceclientglib-2.0 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0 0.42-3

GTK3 widget for SPICE clients (GObject-Introspection)

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0
  • Section: introspection
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 4 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libspice-client-glib-2.0-8 0.42-3

GObject for communicating with Spice servers (runtime library)

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install libspice-client-glib-2.0-8
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 20 dependencies
  • 4 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libspice-client-glib-2.0-8 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev 0.42-3

GObject for communicating with Spice servers (development files)

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 7 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 0.42-3

GTK3 widget for SPICE clients (runtime library)

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 14 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev 0.42-3

GTK3 widget for SPICE clients (development files)

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 7 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper 0.42-3

Helper tool to validate usb ACLs

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper
  • Section: misc
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 5 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

spice-client-gtk 0.42-3

Simple clients for interacting with SPICE servers

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install spice-client-gtk
  • Section: misc
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 6 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: spice-client-gtk from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

spice-gtk

nix profile install nixpkgs#spice-gtk
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/sp/spice-gtk/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

gir1.2-spiceclientglib-2.0 0.42-2ubuntu2

GObject for communicating with Spice servers (GObject-Introspection)

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install gir1.2-spiceclientglib-2.0
  • Section: universe/introspection
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 4 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gir1.2-spiceclientglib-2.0 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0 0.42-2ubuntu2

GTK3 widget for SPICE clients (GObject-Introspection)

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0
  • Section: universe/introspection
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 4 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libspice-client-glib-2.0-8 0.42-2ubuntu2

GObject for communicating with Spice servers (runtime library)

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install libspice-client-glib-2.0-8
  • Section: universe/libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 20 dependencies
  • 4 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libspice-client-glib-2.0-8 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev 0.42-2ubuntu2

GObject for communicating with Spice servers (development files)

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev
  • Section: universe/libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 4 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 0.42-2ubuntu2

GTK3 widget for SPICE clients (runtime library)

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5
  • Section: universe/libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 14 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev 0.42-2ubuntu2

GTK3 widget for SPICE clients (development files)

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev
  • Section: universe/libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 5 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper 0.42-2ubuntu2

Helper tool to validate usb ACLs

https://www.spice-space.org/

sudo apt install spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper
  • Section: universe/misc
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: spice-gtk
  • 5 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Spice Gtk
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

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  • gstreamerRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • gtk+3Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • harfbuzzRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.

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