How To Install autodownloader on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install autodownloader on Rocky Linux 8. autodownloader is GUI-tool to automate the download of certain files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install autodownloader on Rocky Linux 8.

What is autodownloader

Some software (usually games) requires certain data files to operate, sometimes these datafiles can be freely downloaded but may not be redistributed and thus cannot be put into so called packages as part of a distro. autodownloader is a tool which can be used as part of a package to automate the download of the needed files. It will prompt the user explaining to him the need of the download and asking if it is ok to make an internet connection, after this it will show the license of the to be downloaded files and last it will do the actual download and md5 verification off these files. This whole process can be configured by the packager through a simple configuration file. Notice that Autodownloader while open source itself, may download files which are not permitted to be (re)distributed unlike most files in Fedora.

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

Install autodownloader 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 autodownloader using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install autodownloader

Install autodownloader 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 autodownloader using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install autodownloader

How To Uninstall autodownloader on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove autodownloader

autodownloader Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/autodl
/usr/share/autodl
/usr/share/autodl/AutoDL.py
/usr/share/autodl/autodl.ui
/usr/share/doc/autodownloader
/usr/share/doc/autodownloader/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/autodownloader/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/autodownloader/example.autodlrc
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/autodl.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/autodl.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/autodl.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/autodl.png
/usr/share/licenses/autodownloader
/usr/share/licenses/autodownloader/COPYING

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install autodownloader on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.