How To Install transmission-gtk on CentOS 8

transmission-gtk is Transmission GTK interface

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install transmission-gtk on CentOS 8.

What is `transmission-gtk`

GTK graphical interface of Transmission BitTorrent client.

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

Install transmission-gtk 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 transmission-gtk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install transmission-gtk

Install transmission-gtk 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 transmission-gtk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install transmission-gtk

How To Uninstall transmission-gtk on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the transmission-gtk package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove transmission-gtk

transmission-gtk Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/transmission-gtk
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/aea45ad14d5c16a86b6c951aadcf31cd2158c4
/usr/share/appdata/transmission-gtk.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/transmission-gtk.desktop
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/bo/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ceb/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ckb/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/fil/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_CA/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/gv/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/jbo/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/li/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/mt/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/sw/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/transmission-gtk.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/transmission-gtk.1.gz

References

transmission-gtk website

Summary

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