How To Install flatpak-libs on CentOS 8

flatpak-libs is Libraries for flatpak Libraries for flatpak

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-libs on CentOS 8.

What is flatpak-libs

This package contains libflatpak. flatpak-libs 1.8.5 3.el8 x86_64 439 k flatpak-1.8.5-3.el8.src.rpm appstream Libraries for flatpak http LGPLv2+ This package contains libflatpak.

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

Install flatpak-libs 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 flatpak-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flatpak-libs

Install flatpak-libs 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 flatpak-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flatpak-libs

How To Uninstall flatpak-libs on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the flatpak-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove flatpak-libs

flatpak-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/68be62fc431cab28b3d8f1f4651981fec0401d
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Flatpak-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libflatpak.so.0
/usr/lib/libflatpak.so.0.10805.0
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-libs
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-libs/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/9f4c8a029f5e4e9b57be361188da8ad228ddcd
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Flatpak-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libflatpak.so.0
/usr/lib64/libflatpak.so.0.10805.0
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-libs
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-libs/COPYING

References

Summary

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