How To Install gwenhywfar on CentOS 8

gwenhywfar is A multi-platform helper library for other libraries

Introduction

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

What is gwenhywfar

This is Gwenhywfar, a multi-platform helper library for networking and security applications and libraries. It is heavily used by libchipcard and AqBanking/AqHBCI, the German online banking libraries.

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

Install gwenhywfar 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 gwenhywfar using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gwenhywfar

Install gwenhywfar 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 gwenhywfar using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gwenhywfar

How To Uninstall gwenhywfar on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove gwenhywfar

gwenhywfar Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/gct-tool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/9d48eb6e523c0a115f699a257221283a92b592
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/a6f95fe0946bc649cc0f8de93df0072721c34b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/bdbc5cb7fa9369c7e44ffc1211ce7818f5b666
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/83ef2cf8ee4359d1931717cd05b15b1bbfa631
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/e13430952f1d0db3bcc61995b2e34619b9d09c
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/96a3dc3b4a9a9971d93f4cc467c80fd588a195
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/93dead72d33ae51d18c197777f958a60d374cd
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/configmgr
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/configmgr/dir.la
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/configmgr/dir.so
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/configmgr/dir.xml
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/ct
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/ct/ohbci.la
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/ct/ohbci.so
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/ct/ohbci.xml
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/csv.la
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/csv.so
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/csv.so.0
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/csv.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/csv.xml
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/olddb.la
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/olddb.so
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/olddb.so.0
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/olddb.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/olddb.xml
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/xmldb.la
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/xmldb.so
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/xmldb.so.0
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/xmldb.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib64/gwenhywfar/plugins/79/dbio/xmldb.xml
/usr/lib64/libgwenhywfar.so.79
/usr/lib64/libgwenhywfar.so.79.3.0
/usr/share/doc/gwenhywfar
/usr/share/doc/gwenhywfar/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gwenhywfar/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gwenhywfar/README
/usr/share/gwenhywfar
/usr/share/gwenhywfar/ca-bundle.crt
/usr/share/gwenhywfar/dialogs
/usr/share/gwenhywfar/dialogs/dlg_input.dlg
/usr/share/gwenhywfar/dialogs/dlg_message.dlg
/usr/share/gwenhywfar/dialogs/dlg_progress.dlg
/usr/share/gwenhywfar/dialogs/dlg_showbox.dlg
/usr/share/licenses/gwenhywfar
/usr/share/licenses/gwenhywfar/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gwenhywfar.mo

References

Summary

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