How To Install libmwaw on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmwaw on Rocky Linux 8. libmwaw is A library for import of many old Mac document formats

Introduction

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

What is libmwaw

libmwaw is a library for import of old Mac documents. It supports many kinds of text documents, spreadsheets, databases, vector and bitmap images. Supported are, for example, documents created by BeagleWorks, ClarisWorks, MacPaint, MacWrite or Microsoft Word for Mac. A full list of supported formats is available at https

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

Install libmwaw 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 libmwaw using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmwaw

Install libmwaw 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 libmwaw using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmwaw

How To Uninstall libmwaw on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libmwaw

libmwaw Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/8073aa3f8ea9fa48e76be06731d9affa3ed11f
/usr/lib64/libmwaw-0.3.so.3
/usr/lib64/libmwaw-0.3.so.3.0.14
/usr/share/doc/libmwaw
/usr/share/doc/libmwaw/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/libmwaw/README
/usr/share/licenses/libmwaw
/usr/share/licenses/libmwaw/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/licenses/libmwaw/COPYING.MPL
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/dbd497706404237994b96358223f6cf38a12d8
/usr/lib/libmwaw-0.3.so.3
/usr/lib/libmwaw-0.3.so.3.0.14
/usr/share/doc/libmwaw
/usr/share/doc/libmwaw/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/libmwaw/README
/usr/share/licenses/libmwaw
/usr/share/licenses/libmwaw/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/licenses/libmwaw/COPYING.MPL

References

Summary

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