How To Install qtsingleapplication-qt5 on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qtsingleapplication-qt5
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is qtsingleapplication-qt5
For some applications it is useful or even critical that they are started only once by any user. Future attempts to start the application should activate any already running instance, and possibly perform requested actions, e.g. loading a file, in that instance. This is a special build against Qt5.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install qtsingleapplication-qt5
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qtsingleapplication-qt5.
Install qtsingleapplication-qt5 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 qtsingleapplication-qt5
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qtsingleapplication-qt5
Install qtsingleapplication-qt5 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 qtsingleapplication-qt5
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qtsingleapplication-qt5
How To Uninstall qtsingleapplication-qt5 on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the qtsingleapplication-qt5
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qtsingleapplication-qt5
qtsingleapplication-qt5 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/b64bbc47a0721923ff7220219484763e8326d5
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_SingleApplication-2.6.so.1
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_SingleApplication-2.6.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_SingleApplication-2.6.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/qtsingleapplication-qt5
/usr/share/doc/qtsingleapplication-qt5/README.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/qtsingleapplication-qt5
/usr/share/licenses/qtsingleapplication-qt5/LGPL_EXCEPTION
/usr/share/licenses/qtsingleapplication-qt5/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/qtsingleapplication-qt5/LICENSE.LGPL
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qtsingleapplication-qt5
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.