How To Install libwacom on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwacom
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libwacom
libwacom is a library that provides information about Wacom tablets and tools. This information can then be used by drivers or applications to tweak the UI or general settings to match the physical tablet.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libwacom
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libwacom.
Install libwacom 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 libwacom
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libwacom
Install libwacom 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 libwacom
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libwacom
How To Uninstall libwacom on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libwacom
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libwacom
libwacom Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/libwacom-list-local-devices
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/9f0074e35cd84bf51eb08f2a592f09258c149c
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/261a09e92e1191f3c01665ed40dc9bd7b85a81
/usr/lib/libwacom.so.2
/usr/lib/libwacom.so.2.6.1
/usr/share/doc/libwacom
/usr/share/doc/libwacom/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libwacom
/usr/share/licenses/libwacom/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/libwacom-list-local-devices.1.gz
/usr/bin/libwacom-list-local-devices
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/4c6d9553ecb26f9883c4b0c6384c7ff9d6eef4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/be1a30c8fff9dce35769b0540d1e93c474ef00
/usr/lib64/libwacom.so.2
/usr/lib64/libwacom.so.2.6.1
/usr/share/doc/libwacom
/usr/share/doc/libwacom/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libwacom
/usr/share/licenses/libwacom/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/libwacom-list-local-devices.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwacom
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.