How To Install kf5-kactivities on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install kf5-kactivities on Rocky Linux 8. kf5-kactivities is A KDE Frameworks 5 Tier 3 to organize user work into separate activities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kf5-kactivities on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `kf5-kactivities`

A KDE Frameworks 5 Tier 3 API for using and interacting with Activities as a consumer, application adding information to them or as an activity manager.

We can use yum or dnf to install kf5-kactivities on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kf5-kactivities.

Install kf5-kactivities 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 kf5-kactivities using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kf5-kactivities

Install kf5-kactivities 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 kf5-kactivities using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kf5-kactivities

How To Uninstall kf5-kactivities on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the kf5-kactivities package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kf5-kactivities

kf5-kactivities Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/kactivities-cli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/a28c2d7d477cbe0e2e5f08a0c69496ec2714f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/e249fc68e7cf9b39623f36dd11efe78c3c6aff
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/1c946b4e0cc7c08892fac17700ed1086acfaef
/usr/lib64/libKF5Activities.so.5
/usr/lib64/libKF5Activities.so.5.68.0
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/activities
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/activities/libkactivitiesextensionplugin.so
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/activities/qmldir
/usr/share/doc/kf5-kactivities
/usr/share/doc/kf5-kactivities/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/kf5-kactivities
/usr/share/licenses/kf5-kactivities/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/kf5-kactivities/COPYING.LGPL-2
/usr/share/licenses/kf5-kactivities/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/qlogging-categories5/kactivities.categories

References

kf5-kactivities website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kf5-kactivities on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.