How To Install brltty-xw on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install brltty-xw on Rocky Linux 8. brltty-xw is XWindow driver for BRLTTY

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install brltty-xw on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `brltty-xw`

This package provides the XWindow driver for BRLTTY.

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

Install brltty-xw 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 brltty-xw using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install brltty-xw

Install brltty-xw 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 brltty-xw using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install brltty-xw

How To Uninstall brltty-xw on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the brltty-xw package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove brltty-xw

brltty-xw Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/9612f523774dbc0a1b693f7a434a0698cf7817
/usr/lib64/brltty/libbrlttybxw.so
/usr/share/doc/brltty-xw
/usr/share/doc/brltty-xw/README

References

brltty-xw website

Summary

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