How To Install gnome-online-miners on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-online-miners on Rocky Linux 8. gnome-online-miners is Crawls through your online content

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-online-miners on Rocky Linux 8.

What is gnome-online-miners

GNOME Online Miners provides a set of crawlers that go through your online content and index them locally in Tracker. It has miners for Facebook, Flickr, Google, OneDrive and Nextcloud.

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

Install gnome-online-miners 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 gnome-online-miners using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-online-miners

Install gnome-online-miners 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 gnome-online-miners using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-online-miners

How To Uninstall gnome-online-miners on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the gnome-online-miners package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-online-miners

gnome-online-miners Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/218a09802a07b682282fa83f80fa52e7b9fe44
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/fddc7e62b249bfeb5645820ca3611c4911468a
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/e19d69649fd183c6e64f50f9072d012c207ef5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/05aaa5c007054b81fd11c42444cdb1b7f05c63
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/6bade96be6086d1813f7d816e6022852e8232b
/usr/lib64/gnome-online-miners
/usr/lib64/gnome-online-miners/libgom-1.0.so
/usr/libexec/gom-facebook-miner
/usr/libexec/gom-flickr-miner
/usr/libexec/gom-gdata-miner
/usr/libexec/gom-media-server-miner
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.OnlineMiners.Facebook.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.OnlineMiners.Flickr.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.OnlineMiners.GData.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.OnlineMiners.MediaServer.service
/usr/share/doc/gnome-online-miners
/usr/share/doc/gnome-online-miners/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-online-miners/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-online-miners/README
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-online-miners
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-online-miners/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-online-miners on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.