How To Install flatpak-spawn on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-spawn on CentOS 8.
What is flatpak-spawn
This package contains the flatpak-spawn command-line utility. It can be used to talk to the org.freedesktop.Flatpak service to spawn new sandboxes, run commands on the host, or use one of the session or system helpers.
We can use yum or dnf to install flatpak-spawn on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flatpak-spawn.
Install flatpak-spawn 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-spawn using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install flatpak-spawn
Install flatpak-spawn 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-spawn using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flatpak-spawn
How To Uninstall flatpak-spawn on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the flatpak-spawn package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove flatpak-spawn
flatpak-spawn Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/flatpak-spawn
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/ef3ec5b201479dec2cfa3f1e34be4acac2f4b4
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-spawn
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-spawn/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-spawn on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.