How To Install kwin-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install kwin-libs on Rocky Linux 8. kwin-libs is KWin runtime libraries

Introduction

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

What is `kwin-libs`

KWin runtime libraries.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install kwin-libs

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

sudo yum -y install kwin-libs

How To Uninstall kwin-libs on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove kwin-libs

kwin-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/4ff0b496624984476a22b5c48d799d6abbd6d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/687b4c100613bd4314e960fc95a1c029df779f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/7ff561d6adb03bc8bb5320b84299b42d9c9ff5
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/48dfa19221ff6e0323f63375ea40e1bcfa064b
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/fa99344c51c4e84a7fab0b173748825d394f91
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/59169ad9d7102b531da16147cf743e90589961
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/e3a3e91e01a5f9dac0265fe06f9c9f56314ea5
/usr/lib64/libkcmkwincommon.so.5
/usr/lib64/libkcmkwincommon.so.5.18.3
/usr/lib64/libkwin.so.5
/usr/lib64/libkwin.so.5.18.3
/usr/lib64/libkwin4_effect_builtins.so.1
/usr/lib64/libkwin4_effect_builtins.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/libkwineffects.so.12
/usr/lib64/libkwineffects.so.5.18.3
/usr/lib64/libkwinglutils.so.12
/usr/lib64/libkwinglutils.so.5.18.3
/usr/lib64/libkwinxrenderutils.so.12
/usr/lib64/libkwinxrenderutils.so.5.18.3
/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kcms/kcm_kwin_virtualdesktops.so
/usr/share/qlogging-categories5/org_kde_kwin.categories

References

kwin-libs website

Summary

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