How To Install barrier on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install barrier
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is barrier
Barrier is software that mimics the functionality of a KVM switch, which historically would allow you to use a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers. Barrier does this in software, allowing you to tell it which machine to control by moving your mouse to the edge of the screen, or by using a key press to switch focus to a different system.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install barrier
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install barrier.
Install barrier 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 barrier
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install barrier
Install barrier 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 barrier
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install barrier
How To Uninstall barrier on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the barrier
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove barrier
barrier Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/barrier
/usr/bin/barrierc
/usr/bin/barriers
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/99071806100835bb1c6aa1f08bcd1d6a8f4808
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/7ee498c30f96cd5bcd0c53058679563fc4da9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/f1b7ece3145f01bf552d0e54a5f1a7551adb4c
/usr/share/applications/barrier.desktop
/usr/share/doc/barrier
/usr/share/doc/barrier/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/barrier/Readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/barrier/barrier.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/barrier/barrier.conf.example-advanced
/usr/share/doc/barrier/barrier.conf.example-basic
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/barrier.svg
/usr/share/licenses/barrier
/usr/share/licenses/barrier/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/barrierc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/barriers.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/barrier.appdata.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/barrier.ico
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install barrier
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.