How To Install dbus-x11 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dbus-x11 on CentOS 8.
What is dbus-x11
D-BUS contains some tools that require Xlib to be installed, those are in this separate package so server systems need not install X.
We can use yum or dnf to install dbus-x11 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dbus-x11.
Install dbus-x11 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-x11 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dbus-x11
Install dbus-x11 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-x11 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dbus-x11
How To Uninstall dbus-x11 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dbus-x11 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dbus-x11
dbus-x11 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/00-start-message-bus.sh
/etc/profile.d/ssh-x-forwarding.csh
/etc/profile.d/ssh-x-forwarding.sh
/usr/bin/dbus-launch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/00262144d923ab4187616789f4efb525639cec
/usr/share/man/man1/dbus-launch.1.gz
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/00-start-message-bus.sh
/etc/profile.d/ssh-x-forwarding.csh
/etc/profile.d/ssh-x-forwarding.sh
/usr/bin/dbus-launch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/2732e48fc8b8dd3b4f58f90895a699c44120e1
/usr/share/man/man1/dbus-launch.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dbus-x11 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.