How To Install kcharselect on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install kcharselect on Rocky Linux 8. kcharselect is Character selector

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kcharselect on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `kcharselect`

KCharSelect is a tool to select special characters from all installed fonts and copy them into the clipboard.

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

Install kcharselect 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 kcharselect using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kcharselect

Install kcharselect 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 kcharselect using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kcharselect

How To Uninstall kcharselect on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the kcharselect package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kcharselect

kcharselect Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/kcharselect
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/9adbc78c6946b6af87a731ef109fbe9eff56b1
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kcharselect.desktop
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/cs/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/cs/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/cs/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kcharselect/kcharselect.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/el/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/el/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/el/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/el/kcharselect/kcharselect.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcharselect/kcharselect.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ko/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ko/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ko/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kcharselect/kcharselect.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kcharselect
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kcharselect/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kcharselect/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kcharselect/kcharselect.png
/usr/share/licenses/kcharselect
/usr/share/licenses/kcharselect/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/kcharselect.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.kcharselect.appdata.xml

References

kcharselect website

Summary

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