How To Install signon-plugin-oauth2 on CentOS 8

signon-plugin-oauth2 is OAuth2 plugin for the Accounts framework

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install signon-plugin-oauth2 on CentOS 8.

What is signon-plugin-oauth2

OAuth2 plugin for the Accounts framework.

We can use yum or dnf to install signon-plugin-oauth2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install signon-plugin-oauth2.

Install signon-plugin-oauth2 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 signon-plugin-oauth2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install signon-plugin-oauth2

Install signon-plugin-oauth2 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 signon-plugin-oauth2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install signon-plugin-oauth2

How To Uninstall signon-plugin-oauth2 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the signon-plugin-oauth2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove signon-plugin-oauth2

signon-plugin-oauth2 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/864b3f16828d2b647f397cc008f726209b0323
/usr/lib64/signon/liboauth2plugin.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install signon-plugin-oauth2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.