How To Install snapd-glib on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install snapd-glib on Rocky Linux 8. snapd-glib is Library providing a GLib interface to snapd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install snapd-glib on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `snapd-glib`

snapd-glib is a library that provides an interface to communicate with snapd for GLib based applications.

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

Install snapd-glib 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 snapd-glib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install snapd-glib

Install snapd-glib 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 snapd-glib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install snapd-glib

How To Uninstall snapd-glib on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the snapd-glib package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove snapd-glib

snapd-glib Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/ccd4931037867b9b221380c1d0a32980f26177
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Snapd-1.typelib
/usr/lib64/libsnapd-glib.so.1
/usr/lib64/libsnapd-glib.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/snapd-glib
/usr/share/doc/snapd-glib/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/snapd-glib
/usr/share/licenses/snapd-glib/COPYING.LGPL2
/usr/share/licenses/snapd-glib/COPYING.LGPL3

References

snapd-glib website

Summary

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