How To Install qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5 on Rocky Linux 8. qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5 is Qt library to start applications only once per user (Qt5)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `qtsinglecoreapplication-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. For console (non-GUI) applications, the QtSingleCoreApplication variant is provided, which avoids dependency on QtGui. This is a special build against Qt5.

We can use yum or dnf to install qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5.

Install qtsinglecoreapplication-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 qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5

Install qtsinglecoreapplication-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 qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5

How To Uninstall qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5

qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/2b659a86a101adccf0b3abed49c6485dcff2b0
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_SingleCoreApplication-2.6.so.1
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_SingleCoreApplication-2.6.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_SingleCoreApplication-2.6.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5
/usr/share/licenses/qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5/LGPL_EXCEPTION
/usr/share/licenses/qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5/LICENSE.LGPL

References

qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qtsinglecoreapplication-qt5 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.