How To Install marble on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install marble on CentOS 8.
What is marble
Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article. Of course it’s also possible to measure distances between locations or watch the current cloud cover. Marble offers different thematic maps style topographic map, a satellite view, street map, earth at night and temperature and precipitation maps. All maps include a custom map key, so it can also be used as an educational tool for use in class-rooms. For educational purposes you can also change date and time and watch how the starry sky and the twilight zone on the map change. In opposite to other virtual globes Marble also features multiple projections
We can use yum or dnf to install marble on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install marble.
Install marble 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 marble using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install marble
Install marble 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 marble using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install marble
How To Uninstall marble on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the marble package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove marble
marble Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/xdg/marble.knsrc
/usr/bin/marble
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/74f8300570322f8281a9335829280abe3d376c
/usr/share/applications/marble_geo.desktop
/usr/share/applications/marble_geojson.desktop
/usr/share/applications/marble_gpx.desktop
/usr/share/applications/marble_kml.desktop
/usr/share/applications/marble_kmz.desktop
/usr/share/applications/marble_shp.desktop
/usr/share/applications/marble_worldwind.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.marble.desktop
/usr/share/config.kcfg/marble.kcfg
/usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_geojson.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_gpx.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_kml.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_kmz.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_osm.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_shp.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/plasma-applet-org.kde.plasma.worldclock.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/plasma-runner-marble.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/plasma-wallpaper-org.kde.plasma.worldmap.desktop
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/marble
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/marble/marble_part.rc
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/marble/marbleui.rc
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.marble.appdata.xml
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.plasma.worldclock.appdata.xml
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.plasma.worldmap.appdata.xml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/config
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/config/config.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/config/main.xml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/ui
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/ui/configMapDisplay.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/ui/configTimeZones.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/ui/main.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/metadata.desktop
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/metadata.json
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/contents
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/contents/config
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/contents/config/main.xml
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/contents/ui
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/contents/ui/config.qml
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/contents/ui/main.qml
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/metadata.desktop
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/metadata.json
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install marble on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.