How To Install blivet-gui on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install blivet-gui on Rocky Linux 8. blivet-gui is Tool for data storage configuration

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blivet-gui on Rocky Linux 8.

What is blivet-gui

Graphical (GTK) tool for manipulation and configuration of data storage (disks, LVMs, RAIDs) based on blivet library.

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

Install blivet-gui 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 blivet-gui using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blivet-gui

Install blivet-gui 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 blivet-gui using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blivet-gui

How To Uninstall blivet-gui on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the blivet-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove blivet-gui

blivet-gui Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/appdata/blivet-gui.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/blivet-gui.desktop

References

Summary

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