How To Install snapd-qt-qml on CentOS 8

snapd-qt-qml is Library providing a Qt5 QML interface to snapd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install snapd-qt-qml on CentOS 8.

What is snapd-qt-qml

snapd-qt-qml is a library that provides an interface to communicate with snapd for Qt QML based applications.

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

Install snapd-qt-qml 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-qml using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install snapd-qt-qml

Install snapd-qt-qml 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-qml using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install snapd-qt-qml

How To Uninstall snapd-qt-qml on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the snapd-qt-qml package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove snapd-qt-qml

snapd-qt-qml Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/21089130d3bb0702de1bc1d311bed2d0762617
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/Snapd
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/Snapd/libSnapd.so
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/Snapd/qmldir

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install snapd-qt-qml on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.