How To Install gnome-characters on CentOS 8

gnome-characters is Character map application for GNOME

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-characters on CentOS 8.

What is `gnome-characters`

Characters is a simple utility application to find and insert unusual characters.

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

Install gnome-characters 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 gnome-characters using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-characters

Install gnome-characters 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 gnome-characters using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-characters

How To Uninstall gnome-characters on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gnome-characters package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-characters

gnome-characters Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/gnome-characters
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/c3788e6656fc8d07afb30282960c2b1e29eecd
/usr/lib64/org.gnome.Characters
/usr/lib64/org.gnome.Characters/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/org.gnome.Characters/girepository-1.0/Gc-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/org.gnome.Characters/libgc.so
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Characters.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Characters.BackgroundService.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Characters.service
/usr/share/doc/gnome-characters
/usr/share/doc/gnome-characters/NEWS
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Characters.gschema.xml
/usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers/org.gnome.Characters.search-provider.ini
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/gnome-characters.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/gnome-characters.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/gnome-characters.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/gnome-characters.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gnome-characters.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/gnome-characters-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-characters
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-characters/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-characters/COPYINGv2
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ln/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/gir-1.0
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/gir-1.0/Gc-1.0.gir
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/org.gnome.Characters
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/org.gnome.Characters.BackgroundService
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/org.gnome.Characters.BackgroundService.data.gresource
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/org.gnome.Characters.BackgroundService.src.gresource
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/org.gnome.Characters.data.gresource
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/org.gnome.Characters.src.gresource

References

gnome-characters website

Summary

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