How To Install atk on CentOS 8

atk is Interfaces for accessibility support Interfaces for accessibility support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install atk on CentOS 8.

What is `atk`

The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for adding accessibility support to applications and graphical user interface toolkits. By supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can be used with tools such as screen readers, magnifiers, and alternative input devices. atk 2.28.1 1.el8 x86_64 272 k atk-2.28.1-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Interfaces for accessibility support http LGPLv2+ The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for adding accessibility support to applications and graphical user interface toolkits. By supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can be used with tools such as screen readers, magnifiers, and alternative input devices.

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

Install atk 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 atk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install atk

Install atk 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 atk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install atk

How To Uninstall atk on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove atk

atk Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/48a0e42e8201d1d55d7d7d06a7fc35e629b3c1
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Atk-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0.22810.1
/usr/share/doc/atk
/usr/share/doc/atk/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/atk/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/atk/README
/usr/share/licenses/atk
/usr/share/licenses/atk/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/li/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@ije/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/tk/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/tt/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/yi/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/7ef01f9a5c4d7b4936d0c61441d7452bd17385
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Atk-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.so.0.22810.1
/usr/share/doc/atk
/usr/share/doc/atk/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/atk/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/atk/README
/usr/share/licenses/atk
/usr/share/licenses/atk/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/li/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@ije/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/tk/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/tt/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/yi/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/atk10.mo

References

[atk website](http://developer.gnome.org/platform-overview/stable/atk http://developer.gnome.org/platform-overview/stable/atk)

Summary

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