How To Install libaccounts-glib on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libaccounts-glib on Rocky Linux 8. libaccounts-glib is Accounts framework for Linux and POSIX based platforms

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libaccounts-glib on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libaccounts-glib

Accounts framework for Linux and POSIX based platforms.

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

Install libaccounts-glib 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 libaccounts-glib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libaccounts-glib

Install libaccounts-glib 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 libaccounts-glib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libaccounts-glib

How To Uninstall libaccounts-glib on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libaccounts-glib package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libaccounts-glib

libaccounts-glib Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/ag-backup
/usr/bin/ag-tool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/3d62cb544faa2765588d846ac30b09dd7993fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/8e2318ce617d025e168d6e73c620ebaef5a3a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/35d2e159f06a05b68091731868a193ae40cc97
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Accounts-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libaccounts-glib.so.0
/usr/lib64/libaccounts-glib.so.0.2.0
/usr/share/accounts
/usr/share/accounts/applications
/usr/share/accounts/providers
/usr/share/accounts/service_types
/usr/share/accounts/services
/usr/share/backup-framework
/usr/share/backup-framework/applications
/usr/share/backup-framework/applications/accounts.conf
/usr/share/doc/libaccounts-glib
/usr/share/doc/libaccounts-glib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libaccounts-glib/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libaccounts-glib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libaccounts-glib/README
/usr/share/licenses/libaccounts-glib
/usr/share/licenses/libaccounts-glib/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ag-backup.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ag-tool.1.gz
/usr/share/xml
/usr/share/xml/accounts
/usr/share/xml/accounts/schema
/usr/share/xml/accounts/schema/dtd
/usr/share/xml/accounts/schema/dtd/accounts-application.dtd
/usr/share/xml/accounts/schema/dtd/accounts-provider.dtd
/usr/share/xml/accounts/schema/dtd/accounts-service-type.dtd
/usr/share/xml/accounts/schema/dtd/accounts-service.dtd

References

Summary

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