How To Install xforms on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install xforms on Rocky Linux 8. xforms is XForms toolkit library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xforms on Rocky Linux 8.

What is xforms

XForms is a GUI toolkit based on Xlib for X Window Systems. It features a rich set of objects, such as buttons, sliders, browsers, and menus etc. integrated into an easy and efficient object/event callback execution model that allows fast and easy construction of X-applications. In addition, the library is extensible and new objects can easily be created and added to the library.

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

Install xforms 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 xforms using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xforms

Install xforms 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 xforms using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xforms

How To Uninstall xforms on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the xforms package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove xforms

xforms Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/96010541882ebf14794cf8cfd76af766d12bb1
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/04a5a14f624102dc4b01bb03987a88a6b4192d
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/736f461c576656715f481fee5b37c5711ca417
/usr/lib64/libflimage.so.2
/usr/lib64/libflimage.so.2.1.3
/usr/lib64/libforms.so.2
/usr/lib64/libforms.so.2.1.3
/usr/lib64/libformsGL.so.2
/usr/lib64/libformsGL.so.2.1.3
/usr/share/doc/xforms
/usr/share/doc/xforms/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xforms/README
/usr/share/licenses/xforms
/usr/share/licenses/xforms/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/xforms/Copyright

References

Summary

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