How To Install gom on CentOS 8

gom is GObject to SQLite object mapper library GObject to SQLite object mapper library

Introduction

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

What is gom

Gom provides an object mapper from GObjects to SQLite. It helps you write applications that need to store structured data as well as make complex queries upon that data. gom 0.4 1.el8 x86_64 68 k gom-0.4-1.el8.src.rpm appstream GObject to SQLite object mapper library https LGPLv2+ Gom provides an object mapper from GObjects to SQLite. It helps you write applications that need to store structured data as well as make complex queries upon that data.

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

Install gom 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 gom using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gom

Install gom 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 gom using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gom

How To Uninstall gom on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove gom

gom Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/561ea808d3ab818895a55dc3c55470b6882072
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Gom-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgom-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgom-1.0.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/gi
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/Gom.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__/Gom.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__/Gom.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/share/licenses/gom
/usr/share/licenses/gom/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/9d7ba1f7ec7770452efd9874ba8247c40f117f
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Gom-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgom-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgom-1.0.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/Gom.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__/Gom.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__/Gom.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/share/licenses/gom
/usr/share/licenses/gom/COPYING

References

Summary

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