How To Install booksorg on CentOS 8

booksorg is Books Organizer

Introduction

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

What is booksorg

Books Organizer an organizer for PDF files based on SQLite and with a built-in reader. Bring your favorite PDF pages all in one! Make your own extract pages from existing ones.

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

Install booksorg 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 booksorg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install booksorg

Install booksorg 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 booksorg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install booksorg

How To Uninstall booksorg on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove booksorg

booksorg Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/booksorg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/22b383f05010de744b87891f41393425b043d5
/usr/share/appdata/booksorg.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/booksorg.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/booksorg.svg
/usr/share/licenses/booksorg
/usr/share/licenses/booksorg/LICENSE

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Summary

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