How To Install avahi-gobject on CentOS 8

avahi-gobject is GObject wrapper library for Avahi GObject wrapper library for Avahi

Introduction

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

What is avahi-gobject

This library contains a GObject wrapper for the Avahi API avahi-gobject 0.7 20.el8 x86_64 24 k avahi-0.7-20.el8.src.rpm baseos GObject wrapper library for Avahi http LGPLv2+ This library contains a GObject wrapper for the Avahi API

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

Install avahi-gobject 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-gobject using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install avahi-gobject

Install avahi-gobject 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-gobject using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install avahi-gobject

How To Uninstall avahi-gobject on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove avahi-gobject

avahi-gobject Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/91
/usr/lib/.build-id/91/ab1892b8fa8348f8a669cb698f1c6eaf51da95
/usr/lib/libavahi-gobject.so.0
/usr/lib/libavahi-gobject.so.0.0.5
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/8f8e0dff172e169c403a327a85f319e5e0b841
/usr/lib64/libavahi-gobject.so.0
/usr/lib64/libavahi-gobject.so.0.0.5

References

Summary

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