How To Install flatpak-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-libs on Rocky Linux 8. flatpak-libs is Libraries for flatpak

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `flatpak-libs`

This package contains libflatpak.

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

Install flatpak-libs 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 flatpak-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flatpak-libs

Install flatpak-libs 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 flatpak-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flatpak-libs

How To Uninstall flatpak-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the flatpak-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove flatpak-libs

flatpak-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/c591be513e0a896a54253db8790ff6d7549415
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Flatpak-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libflatpak.so.0
/usr/lib64/libflatpak.so.0.10805.0
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-libs
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-libs/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/765d6be7be067ed21de18b5983a5e720104b74
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Flatpak-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libflatpak.so.0
/usr/lib/libflatpak.so.0.10805.0
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-libs
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-libs/COPYING

References

flatpak-libs website

Summary

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