How To Install libwayland-egl on CentOS 8

libwayland-egl is Wayland egl library Wayland egl library

Introduction

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

What is libwayland-egl

Wayland egl library libwayland-egl 1.17.0 1.el8 x86_64 19 k wayland-1.17.0-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Wayland egl library http MIT Wayland egl library

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

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

sudo dnf -y install libwayland-egl

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

sudo yum -y install libwayland-egl

How To Uninstall libwayland-egl on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove libwayland-egl

libwayland-egl Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/139b3e028939bbecdb2571b5a8cd5c62d832de
/usr/lib64/libwayland-egl.so.1
/usr/lib64/libwayland-egl.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/libwayland-egl
/usr/share/licenses/libwayland-egl/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/82e4a13fe85f9fb201add3da9ae996a4caab89
/usr/lib/libwayland-egl.so.1
/usr/lib/libwayland-egl.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/libwayland-egl
/usr/share/licenses/libwayland-egl/COPYING

References

Summary

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