How To Install brlapi on CentOS 8

brlapi is Application Programming Interface for BRLTTY Application Programming Interface for BRLTTY

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install brlapi on CentOS 8.

What is brlapi

This package provides the run-time support for the Application Programming Interface to BRLTTY. Install this package if you have an application which directly accesses a refreshable braille display. brlapi 0.6.7 32.el8 x86_64 171 k brltty-5.6-32.el8.src.rpm appstream Application Programming Interface for BRLTTY http LGPLv2+ This package provides the run-time support for the Application Programming Interface to BRLTTY. Install this package if you have an application which directly accesses a refreshable braille display.

We can use yum or dnf to install brlapi on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install brlapi.

Install brlapi on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install brlapi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install brlapi

Install brlapi on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install brlapi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install brlapi

How To Uninstall brlapi on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the brlapi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove brlapi

brlapi Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/brlapi.key
/usr/bin/eutp
/usr/bin/vstp
/usr/bin/xbrlapi
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/2ed09c5c9b1482c955893cd70c6766a711a146
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/77f6eb4e8124d4a4365d0200f483ac5a224b51
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/508eaa8c3742580ce0fe75d3d89646521641e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/e4f8ffb1710b91f8f14358e1b05d6dfbbf061c
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/1393d62527113a543247dc850f2732870a43c1
/usr/lib/brltty/libbrlttybba.so
/usr/lib/libbrlapi.so.0.6
/usr/lib/libbrlapi.so.0.6.7
/usr/share/doc/brlapi
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-1.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-2.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-3.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-4.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-5.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-6.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-7.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI.sgml
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI.txt
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/README
/usr/share/man/man1/eutp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vstp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xbrlapi.1.gz
/etc/brlapi.key
/usr/bin/eutp
/usr/bin/vstp
/usr/bin/xbrlapi
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/b22171fe03d02c18fbd8f2f4afe848e4fe3479
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/8d265bd847efa884d795d39f5afed77efb09e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/e1a21f5bc1b36cb8ece684b6ee030634860596
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/b024eac3f8e8340b7ead57f17106502f70a832
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/9c5350996be7b710abef8755ae685b514fcd7c
/usr/lib64/brltty/libbrlttybba.so
/usr/lib64/libbrlapi.so.0.6
/usr/lib64/libbrlapi.so.0.6.7
/usr/share/doc/brlapi
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-1.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-2.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-3.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-4.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-5.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-6.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI-7.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI.html
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI.sgml
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/Manual-BrlAPI/English/BrlAPI.txt
/usr/share/doc/brlapi/README
/usr/share/man/man1/eutp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vstp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xbrlapi.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install brlapi on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.