How To Install platform on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install platform
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is platform
Platform support library used by libCEC and binary add-ons for Kodi.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install platform
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install platform.
Install platform 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 platform
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install platform
Install platform 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 platform
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install platform
How To Uninstall platform on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the platform
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove platform
platform Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/f85d0c0d9e8db743abb9b576fb17f66864b155
/usr/lib64/libp8-platform.so.2
/usr/lib64/libp8-platform.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/platform
/usr/share/doc/platform/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/platform
/usr/share/licenses/platform/gpl-2.0.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install platform
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.