How To Install barcode on CentOS 8

barcode is generates barcodes from text strings

Introduction

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

What is barcode

Barcode is meant to solve most needs in barcode creation with a conventional printer. It can create printouts for the conventional product tagging standards as a few other formats. Ouput is generated as either Postscript or Encapsulated Postscript.

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

Install barcode 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 barcode using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install barcode

Install barcode 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 barcode using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install barcode

How To Uninstall barcode on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove barcode

barcode Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/barcode
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/fc20d6908c11771052ea589039ac4a2b807fb4
/usr/share/doc/barcode
/usr/share/doc/barcode/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/barcode/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/barcode/README
/usr/share/doc/barcode/TODO
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/Bugs-and-Pending-Issues.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/Overview.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/PCL-Output.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/Supported-Encodings.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/Supported-Flags.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/The-API.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/The-Barcode-Object.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/The-Command-Line.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/The-Field-List.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/The-Intermediate-Representation.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/The-barcode-Executable.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/index.html
/usr/share/info/barcode.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/barcode.1.gz

References

Summary

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