How To Install rsibreak on CentOS 8
rsibreak is A small utility which bothers you at certain intervals
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsibreak on CentOS 8.
What is rsibreak
RSIBreak is a small utility which bothers you at certain intervals. The interval and duration of two different timers can be configured. You can use the breaks to stretch out or do the dishes. The aim of this utility is to let you know when it is time to have a break from your computer. This can help people to prevent Repetive Strain Injury.
We can use yum or dnf to install rsibreak on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rsibreak.
Install rsibreak 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 rsibreak using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rsibreak
Install rsibreak 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 rsibreak using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rsibreak
How To Uninstall rsibreak on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rsibreak package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rsibreak
rsibreak Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/xdg/autostart/rsibreak_autostart.desktop
/usr/bin/rsibreak
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/315c01d80119e9b75ea2be4ba9d87079949481
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.rsibreak.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.rsibreak.rsiwidget.xml
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/rsibreak
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/rsibreak/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/rsibreak/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/rsibreak/logo.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/rsibreak/statistics.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/rsibreak/suspend.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/rsibreak
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/rsibreak/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/rsibreak/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/rsibreak/logo.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/rsibreak/popup.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/rsibreak/statistics.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/rsibreak/suspend.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/rsibreak
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/rsibreak/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/rsibreak/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/rsibreak
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/rsibreak/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/rsibreak/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/rsibreak
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/rsibreak/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/rsibreak/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/rsibreak
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/rsibreak/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/rsibreak/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/rsibreak
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/rsibreak/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/rsibreak/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/rsibreak
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/rsibreak/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/rsibreak/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/rsibreak
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/rsibreak/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/rsibreak/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/rsibreak/popup.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/rsibreak/statistics.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/rsibreak/suspend.png
/usr/share/doc/rsibreak
/usr/share/doc/rsibreak/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rsibreak/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rsibreak/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rsibreak/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/rsibreak.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/rsibreak0.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/rsibreak1.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/rsibreak2.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/rsibreak3.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/rsibreak4.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/rsibreakx.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/rsibreak.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/actions/rsibreak0.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/actions/rsibreak1.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/actions/rsibreak2.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/actions/rsibreak3.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/actions/rsibreak4.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/actions/rsibreakx.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/rsibreak.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/actions/duringbreaks.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/actions/rsibreak0.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/actions/rsibreak1.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/actions/rsibreak2.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/actions/rsibreak3.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/actions/rsibreak4.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/actions/rsibreakx.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/actions/timings.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/rsibreak.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/actions/rsibreak0.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/actions/rsibreak1.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/actions/rsibreak2.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/actions/rsibreak3.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/actions/rsibreak4.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/actions/rsibreakx.png
/usr/share/knotifications5/rsibreak.notifyrc
/usr/share/licenses/rsibreak
/usr/share/licenses/rsibreak/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/hne/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/rsibreak.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.rsibreak.appdata.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsibreak on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.