How To Install lirc-tools-gui on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lirc-tools-gui on Rocky Linux 8. lirc-tools-gui is LIRC GUI tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lirc-tools-gui on Rocky Linux 8.

What is lirc-tools-gui

Part of the LIRC package suite which handles IR remotes. See the package lirc for more. This package contains some seldom used X11-based tools for debugging lirc configurations.

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

Install lirc-tools-gui 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 lirc-tools-gui using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lirc-tools-gui

Install lirc-tools-gui 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 lirc-tools-gui using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lirc-tools-gui

How To Uninstall lirc-tools-gui on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the lirc-tools-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lirc-tools-gui

lirc-tools-gui Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/irxevent
/usr/bin/xmode2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/4d89387c7c61eea5079f7829a38606495e96a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/787dafcefceb2c2a9599ff1b091b88c44cbbb3
/usr/share/man/man1/irxevent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xmode2.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lirc-tools-gui on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.