How To Install abrt-gui on CentOS 8

abrt-gui is abrt’s gui

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-gui on CentOS 8.

What is abrt-gui

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We can use yum or dnf to install abrt-gui on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abrt-gui.

Install abrt-gui on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abrt-gui using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abrt-gui

Install abrt-gui on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abrt-gui using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abrt-gui

How To Uninstall abrt-gui on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the abrt-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove abrt-gui

abrt-gui Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/xdg/autostart/abrt-applet.desktop
/usr/bin/abrt-applet
/usr/bin/system-config-abrt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/f5e2207cfa3888eba7dd39bfb6b9c840a93a54
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/2ba30a27c0063afcc9c03700febb30fe8a30f0
/usr/share/abrt
/usr/share/abrt/icons/hicolor/16x16/status/abrt.png
/usr/share/abrt/icons/hicolor/22x22/status/abrt.png
/usr/share/abrt/icons/hicolor/24x24/status/abrt.png
/usr/share/abrt/icons/hicolor/256x256/status/abrt.png
/usr/share/abrt/icons/hicolor/32x32/status/abrt.png
/usr/share/abrt/icons/hicolor/48x48/status/abrt.png
/usr/share/abrt/ui/abrt-config-widget.glade
/usr/share/applications/abrt-applet.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/abrt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/status/abrt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/abrt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/status/abrt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/abrt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/status/abrt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/status/abrt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/abrt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/status/abrt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/abrt.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/status/abrt.png
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt-applet.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/system-config-abrt.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-gui on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.