How To Install gnome-online-miners on CentOS 8

gnome-online-miners is Crawls through your online content

Introduction

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

What is gnome-online-miners

GNOME Online Miners provides a set of crawlers that go through your online content and index them locally in Tracker. It has miners for Facebook, Flickr, Google, OneDrive and Nextcloud.

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

Install gnome-online-miners 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-online-miners using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-online-miners

Install gnome-online-miners 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-online-miners using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-online-miners

How To Uninstall gnome-online-miners on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove gnome-online-miners

gnome-online-miners Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/d18d4ddd94322de689672cb47f9385c44412cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/8dac52d83ff64165edab58fca1241ff3ee6142
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/5081461ddec9e82890b277288cee4a14687f1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/423cd035786c8267344bfe1ecd55875778c4b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/e143c6bfb902a3629b15c65dc793384dac6adb
/usr/lib64/gnome-online-miners
/usr/lib64/gnome-online-miners/libgom-1.0.so
/usr/libexec/gom-facebook-miner
/usr/libexec/gom-flickr-miner
/usr/libexec/gom-gdata-miner
/usr/libexec/gom-media-server-miner
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.OnlineMiners.Facebook.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.OnlineMiners.Flickr.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.OnlineMiners.GData.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.OnlineMiners.MediaServer.service
/usr/share/doc/gnome-online-miners
/usr/share/doc/gnome-online-miners/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-online-miners/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-online-miners/README
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-online-miners
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-online-miners/COPYING

References

Summary

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