How To Install startup-notification on CentOS 8

startup-notification is Library for tracking application startup Library for tracking application startup

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install startup-notification on CentOS 8.

What is startup-notification

This package contains libstartup-notification which implements a startup notification protocol. Using this protocol a desktop environment can track the launch of an application and provide feedback such as a busy cursor, among other features. startup-notification 0.12 15.el8 x86_64 45 k startup-notification-0.12-15.el8.src.rpm appstream Library for tracking application startup http LGPLv2 This package contains libstartup-notification which implements a startup notification protocol. Using this protocol a desktop environment can track the launch of an application and provide feedback such as a busy cursor, among other features.

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

Install startup-notification 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 startup-notification using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install startup-notification

Install startup-notification 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 startup-notification using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install startup-notification

How To Uninstall startup-notification on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the startup-notification package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove startup-notification

startup-notification Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/f77c499604a3878fb880bf18613957dd1d1e20
/usr/lib64/libstartup-notification-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libstartup-notification-1.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification/startup-notification.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/22ecb64ec5f76528629106228d2764e1e4076e
/usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0
/usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/startup-notification/startup-notification.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install startup-notification on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.