How To Install baloo-widgets on CentOS 8

baloo-widgets is Widgets for Baloo

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install baloo-widgets on CentOS 8.

What is `baloo-widgets`

Widgets for Baloo.

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

Install baloo-widgets 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 baloo-widgets using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install baloo-widgets

Install baloo-widgets 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 baloo-widgets using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install baloo-widgets

How To Uninstall baloo-widgets on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the baloo-widgets package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove baloo-widgets

baloo-widgets Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/baloo_filemetadata_temp_extractor
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/d8aa69ff3526860d2d36f81314ef265008f1fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/966844ecb7ae98d814d15e35e9f912bb65b87b
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/ac99565a88f9ff507fb13301d7e8b0e8ebe2cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/4592b81a02186c3fbb6783eb6210f427021d94
/usr/lib64/libKF5BalooWidgets.so.19.12.2
/usr/lib64/libKF5BalooWidgets.so.5
/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/baloofilepropertiesplugin.so
/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kfileitemaction
/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kfileitemaction/tagsfileitemaction.so
/usr/share/doc/baloo-widgets
/usr/share/doc/baloo-widgets/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/kservices5/baloofilepropertiesplugin.desktop
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/baloowidgets5.mo

References

baloo-widgets website

Summary

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