How To Install gvfs-smb on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gvfs-smb
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is gvfs-smb
This package provides support for reading and writing files on windows shares (SMB) to applications using gvfs.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install gvfs-smb
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gvfs-smb.
Install gvfs-smb 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 gvfs-smb
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gvfs-smb
Install gvfs-smb 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 gvfs-smb
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gvfs-smb
How To Uninstall gvfs-smb on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the gvfs-smb
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gvfs-smb
gvfs-smb Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/a2b1fa8044ec0534a44ea6d738aa75d5a77e94
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/31424dc0c39ce8c8e6a69b66817f2baa61a8c4
/usr/libexec/gvfsd-smb
/usr/libexec/gvfsd-smb-browse
/usr/share/gvfs/mounts/smb-browse.mount
/usr/share/gvfs/mounts/smb.mount
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gvfs-smb
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.