How To Install qtlockedfile-qt5 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qtlockedfile-qt5 on CentOS 8.
What is qtlockedfile-qt5
This class extends the QFile class with inter-process file locking capabilities. If an application requires that several processes should access the same file, QtLockedFile can be used to easily ensure that only one process at a time is writing to the file, and that no process is writing to it while others are reading it. This is a special build against Qt5.
We can use yum or dnf to install qtlockedfile-qt5 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qtlockedfile-qt5.
Install qtlockedfile-qt5 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 qtlockedfile-qt5 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qtlockedfile-qt5
Install qtlockedfile-qt5 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 qtlockedfile-qt5 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qtlockedfile-qt5
How To Uninstall qtlockedfile-qt5 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the qtlockedfile-qt5 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qtlockedfile-qt5
qtlockedfile-qt5 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/af981261dee8eb040806e631d183f860ecd445
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_LockedFile-2.4.so.1
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_LockedFile-2.4.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_LockedFile-2.4.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/qtlockedfile-qt5
/usr/share/doc/qtlockedfile-qt5/README.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/qtlockedfile-qt5
/usr/share/licenses/qtlockedfile-qt5/LGPL_EXCEPTION
/usr/share/licenses/qtlockedfile-qt5/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/qtlockedfile-qt5/LICENSE.LGPL
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qtlockedfile-qt5 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.