How To Install snapd-qt on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snapd-qt on CentOS 8.
What is snapd-qt
snapd-qt is a library that provides an interface to communicate with snapd for Qt based applications.
We can use yum or dnf to install snapd-qt on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install snapd-qt.
Install snapd-qt 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 snapd-qt using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install snapd-qt
Install snapd-qt 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 snapd-qt using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install snapd-qt
How To Uninstall snapd-qt on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the snapd-qt package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove snapd-qt
snapd-qt Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/468ed4ea87fad9a4a797e2e3685059eac433bb
/usr/lib64/libsnapd-qt.so.1
/usr/lib64/libsnapd-qt.so.1.0.0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install snapd-qt on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.