How To Install cros-notificationd on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-notificationd on Rocky Linux 8. cros-notificationd is Chromium OS Notification Bridge

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-notificationd on Rocky Linux 8.

What is cros-notificationd

This package installs D-Bus on-demand service specification for notificationd.

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

Install cros-notificationd 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 cros-notificationd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cros-notificationd

Install cros-notificationd 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 cros-notificationd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cros-notificationd

How To Uninstall cros-notificationd on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the cros-notificationd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cros-notificationd

cros-notificationd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/systemd/user/cros-notificationd.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service
/usr/share/doc/cros-notificationd
/usr/share/doc/cros-notificationd/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cros-notificationd
/usr/share/licenses/cros-notificationd/LICENSE

References

Summary

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