How To Install avahi-compat-howl on CentOS 8

avahi-compat-howl is Libraries for howl compatibility Libraries for howl compatibility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install avahi-compat-howl on CentOS 8.

What is avahi-compat-howl

Libraries that are compatible with those provided by the howl package. avahi-compat-howl 0.7 20.el8 x86_64 28 k avahi-0.7-20.el8.src.rpm powertools Libraries for howl compatibility http LGPLv2+ Libraries that are compatible with those provided by the howl package.

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

Install avahi-compat-howl 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 avahi-compat-howl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install avahi-compat-howl

Install avahi-compat-howl 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 avahi-compat-howl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install avahi-compat-howl

How To Uninstall avahi-compat-howl on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the avahi-compat-howl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove avahi-compat-howl

avahi-compat-howl Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/4984beaa0ec6b3013d623364f76e442af5e1e1
/usr/lib/libhowl.so.0
/usr/lib/libhowl.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/f906b34b5566a7e749bd0fffed401a70114b04
/usr/lib64/libhowl.so.0
/usr/lib64/libhowl.so.0.0.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install avahi-compat-howl on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.