How To Install qtsingleapplication-qt5 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qtsingleapplication-qt5 on CentOS 8.
What is qtsingleapplication-qt5
For some applications it is useful or even critical that they are started only once by any user. Future attempts to start the application should activate any already running instance, and possibly perform requested actions, e.g. loading a file, in that instance. This is a special build against Qt5.
We can use yum or dnf to install qtsingleapplication-qt5 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qtsingleapplication-qt5.
Install qtsingleapplication-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 qtsingleapplication-qt5 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qtsingleapplication-qt5
Install qtsingleapplication-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 qtsingleapplication-qt5 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qtsingleapplication-qt5
How To Uninstall qtsingleapplication-qt5 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the qtsingleapplication-qt5 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qtsingleapplication-qt5
qtsingleapplication-qt5 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/b64bbc47a0721923ff7220219484763e8326d5
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_SingleApplication-2.6.so.1
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_SingleApplication-2.6.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_SingleApplication-2.6.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/qtsingleapplication-qt5
/usr/share/doc/qtsingleapplication-qt5/README.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/qtsingleapplication-qt5
/usr/share/licenses/qtsingleapplication-qt5/LGPL_EXCEPTION
/usr/share/licenses/qtsingleapplication-qt5/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/qtsingleapplication-qt5/LICENSE.LGPL
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qtsingleapplication-qt5 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.