How To Install brltty-xw on CentOS 8

brltty-xw is XWindow driver for BRLTTY

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install brltty-xw on CentOS 8.

What is brltty-xw

This package provides the XWindow driver for BRLTTY.

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

Install brltty-xw 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 brltty-xw using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install brltty-xw

Install brltty-xw 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 brltty-xw using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install brltty-xw

How To Uninstall brltty-xw on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the brltty-xw package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove brltty-xw

brltty-xw Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/e544701e2c147f8b6843ef04de0936a8b661e8
/usr/lib64/brltty/libbrlttybxw.so
/usr/share/doc/brltty-xw
/usr/share/doc/brltty-xw/README

References

Summary

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