How To Install qt5-qtlocation on CentOS 8

qt5-qtlocation is Qt5 - Location component Qt5 - Location component

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-qtlocation on CentOS 8.

What is `qt5-qtlocation`

The Qt Location and Qt Positioning APIs gives developers the ability to determine a position by using a variety of possible sources, including satellite, or wifi, or text file, and so on. qt5-qtlocation 5.12.5 1.el8 x86_64 3.1 M qt5-qtlocation-5.12.5-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Qt5 - Location component http LGPLv2 with exceptions or GPLv3 with exceptions The Qt Location and Qt Positioning APIs gives developers the ability to determine a position by using a variety of possible sources, including satellite, or wifi, or text file, and so on.

We can use yum or dnf to install qt5-qtlocation on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qt5-qtlocation.

Install qt5-qtlocation 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 qt5-qtlocation using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qt5-qtlocation

Install qt5-qtlocation 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 qt5-qtlocation using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qt5-qtlocation

How To Uninstall qt5-qtlocation on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the qt5-qtlocation package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove qt5-qtlocation

qt5-qtlocation Package Contents on CentOS 8

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/usr/lib/qt5/qml/QtPositioning/plugins.qmltypes
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/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtlocation
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/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/geoservices/libqtgeoservices_itemsoverlay.so
/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/geoservices/libqtgeoservices_mapbox.so
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/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/geoservices/libqtgeoservices_osm.so
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/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/Qt
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/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/Qt/labs/location/qmldir
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtLocation
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/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtLocation/plugins.qmltypes
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtLocation/qmldir
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtPositioning
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtPositioning/libdeclarative_positioning.so
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtPositioning/plugins.qmltypes
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtPositioning/qmldir
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtlocation
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtlocation/LICENSE.GPL2
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtlocation/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtlocation/LICENSE.GPL3-EXCEPT
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtlocation/LICENSE.GPLv3
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtlocation/LICENSE.LGPL3
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtlocation/LICENSE.LGPLv3

References

[qt5-qtlocation website](http://www.qt.io http://www.qt.io)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-qtlocation on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.