How To Install flatpak-session-helper on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-session-helper on CentOS 8.
What is flatpak-session-helper
This package contains the org.freedesktop.Flatpak user D-Bus service that’s used by flatpak and other packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install flatpak-session-helper on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flatpak-session-helper.
Install flatpak-session-helper 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-session-helper using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install flatpak-session-helper
Install flatpak-session-helper 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-session-helper using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flatpak-session-helper
How To Uninstall flatpak-session-helper on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the flatpak-session-helper package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove flatpak-session-helper
flatpak-session-helper Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/a4b05ba0ad80de065dc667935e31ff90317cfe
/usr/lib/systemd/user/flatpak-session-helper.service
/usr/libexec/flatpak-session-helper
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Flatpak.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Flatpak.service
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-session-helper
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-session-helper/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-session-helper on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.