How To Install libwayland-cursor on CentOS 8

libwayland-cursor is Wayland cursor library Wayland cursor library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwayland-cursor on CentOS 8.

What is libwayland-cursor

Wayland cursor library libwayland-cursor 1.17.0 1.el8 x86_64 26 k wayland-1.17.0-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Wayland cursor library http MIT Wayland cursor library

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

Install libwayland-cursor 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 libwayland-cursor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libwayland-cursor

Install libwayland-cursor 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 libwayland-cursor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libwayland-cursor

How To Uninstall libwayland-cursor on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the libwayland-cursor package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libwayland-cursor

libwayland-cursor Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/fbe2b17af84172ca3fdc58f2e69935d0da5ab8
/usr/lib64/libwayland-cursor.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwayland-cursor.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/libwayland-cursor
/usr/share/licenses/libwayland-cursor/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/e6a36a984d4649a50632884645629e5a0f18ae
/usr/lib/libwayland-cursor.so.0
/usr/lib/libwayland-cursor.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/libwayland-cursor
/usr/share/licenses/libwayland-cursor/COPYING

References

Summary

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