How To Install dbus-tools on CentOS 8

dbus-tools is D-BUS Tools and Utilities D-BUS Tools and Utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dbus-tools on CentOS 8.

What is dbus-tools

Tools and utilities to interact with a running D-Bus Message Bus, provided by the reference implementation. dbus-tools 1 1.12.8 12.el8_4.2 x86_64 85 k dbus-1.12.8-12.el8_4.2.src.rpm baseos D-BUS Tools and Utilities http (GPLv2+ or AFL) and GPLv2+ Tools and utilities to interact with a running D-Bus Message Bus, provided by the reference implementation.

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

Install dbus-tools 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 dbus-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dbus-tools

Install dbus-tools 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 dbus-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dbus-tools

How To Uninstall dbus-tools on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the dbus-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dbus-tools

dbus-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/dbus-monitor
/usr/bin/dbus-send
/usr/bin/dbus-update-activation-environment
/usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/42ca5544ffaa0545a53f80597ce899e86a8113
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/352741aad90541cba377d3d44078ed350c8130
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/e10b68be325e9cd84d52ce06720d05531e8b43
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/1a83a5e3b3f302e5620e7120ce830c9b3f5899
/usr/share/licenses/dbus-tools
/usr/share/licenses/dbus-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/dbus-monitor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dbus-send.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dbus-update-activation-environment.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dbus-uuidgen.1.gz
/usr/bin/dbus-monitor
/usr/bin/dbus-send
/usr/bin/dbus-update-activation-environment
/usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/3c844ba2aedbe1194f009b86cf41bf5b6d1507
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/77804f5c2cb3c41db317375c934962f293d0b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/78c4e637b3e16870ee60479e2aa847ca587dda
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/58978420162438ce07f119c3c5c950b94f4b8c
/usr/share/licenses/dbus-tools
/usr/share/licenses/dbus-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/dbus-monitor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dbus-send.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dbus-update-activation-environment.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dbus-uuidgen.1.gz

References

Summary

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