How To Install qrencode on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qrencode on CentOS 8.
What is qrencode
Qrencode is a utility software using libqrencode to encode string data in a QR Code and save as a PNG image.
We can use yum or dnf to install qrencode on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qrencode.
Install qrencode 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 qrencode using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qrencode
Install qrencode 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 qrencode using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qrencode
How To Uninstall qrencode on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the qrencode package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qrencode
qrencode Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/qrencode
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/5741d8823561a0446ae9f5b32c3574c5cdd946
/usr/share/man/man1/qrencode.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qrencode on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.