How To Install accountsservice on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is accountsservice
The accountsservice project provides a set of D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information and an implementation of these interfaces, based on the useradd, usermod and userdel commands.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install accountsservice
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install accountsservice.
Install accountsservice on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install accountsservice
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install accountsservice
Install accountsservice on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install accountsservice
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install accountsservice
How To Uninstall accountsservice on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the accountsservice
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove accountsservice
accountsservice Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.Accounts.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/5a26045054c2693f7b067e5de1051fc330e3a8
/usr/lib/systemd/system/accounts-daemon.service
/usr/libexec/accounts-daemon
/usr/share/accountsservice/interfaces/com.redhat.AccountsServiceUser.System.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/com.redhat.AccountsServiceUser.System.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Accounts.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service
/usr/share/doc/accountsservice
/usr/share/doc/accountsservice/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/accountsservice/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/accountsservice
/usr/share/licenses/accountsservice/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy
/var/lib/AccountsService
/var/lib/AccountsService/icons
/var/lib/AccountsService/users
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.