How To Install libwinpr on CentOS 8

libwinpr is Windows Portable Runtime Windows Portable Runtime

Introduction

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

What is libwinpr

WinPR provides API compatibility for applications targeting non-Windows environments. When on Windows, the original native API is being used instead of the equivalent WinPR implementation, without having to modify the code using it. libwinpr 2 2.2.0 1.el8 x86_64 357 k freerdp-2.2.0-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Windows Portable Runtime http ASL 2.0 WinPR provides API compatibility for applications targeting non-Windows environments. When on Windows, the original native API is being used instead of the equivalent WinPR implementation, without having to modify the code using it.

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

Install libwinpr 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 libwinpr using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libwinpr

Install libwinpr 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 libwinpr using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libwinpr

How To Uninstall libwinpr on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove libwinpr

libwinpr Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/f778fcd992545ccdeaa4dae207a9df73035781
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/e84357aa843cb928aec656dc3b07072af1b1a3
/usr/lib/libwinpr-tools2.so.2
/usr/lib/libwinpr-tools2.so.2.2.0
/usr/lib/libwinpr2.so.2
/usr/lib/libwinpr2.so.2.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libwinpr
/usr/share/doc/libwinpr/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libwinpr/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libwinpr
/usr/share/licenses/libwinpr/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/4a0ab4b4b15d9250f132e0f36dcdf24071263e
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/47c0b7de1bbfeb1456a288cf64c6d54821ec1b
/usr/lib64/libwinpr-tools2.so.2
/usr/lib64/libwinpr-tools2.so.2.2.0
/usr/lib64/libwinpr2.so.2
/usr/lib64/libwinpr2.so.2.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libwinpr
/usr/share/doc/libwinpr/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libwinpr/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libwinpr
/usr/share/licenses/libwinpr/LICENSE

References

Summary

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