How To Install foliate on CentOS 8

foliate is Simple and modern GTK eBook reader

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install foliate on CentOS 8.

What is `foliate`

A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer, built with GJS and Epub.js.

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

Install foliate 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 foliate using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install foliate

Install foliate 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 foliate using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install foliate

How To Uninstall foliate on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the foliate package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove foliate

foliate Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate
/usr/share/applications/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.desktop
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/__init__.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/compatibility_utils.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/kindleunpack.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_cover.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_dict.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_header.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_html.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_index.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_k8proc.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_k8resc.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_nav.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_ncx.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_opf.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_pagemap.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_sectioner.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_split.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_uncompress.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_utils.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobiml2xhtml.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/unipath.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/unpack_structure.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/epub.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/jszip.min.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/lookup.html
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/utils.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/viewer-nocsp.html
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/viewer.css
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/viewer.html
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/viewer.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.src.gresource
/usr/share/doc/foliate
/usr/share/doc/foliate/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/foliate
/usr/share/licenses/foliate/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/cs_CS/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/id_ID/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl_NL/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.appdata.xml

References

foliate website

Summary

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