How To Install trash-cli on CentOS 8
trash-cli is Command line interface to the freedesktop.org trashcan
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install trash-cli on CentOS 8.
What is trash-cli
trash-cli provides a command line trash usable with GNOME, KDE, Xfce or any freedesktop.org compatible trash implementation. The command line interface is compatible with rm and you can use trash-put as an alias to rm.
We can use yum or dnf to install trash-cli on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install trash-cli.
Install trash-cli 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 trash-cli using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install trash-cli
Install trash-cli 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 trash-cli using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install trash-cli
How To Uninstall trash-cli on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the trash-cli package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove trash-cli
trash-cli Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/trash
/usr/bin/trash-empty
/usr/bin/trash-list
/usr/bin/trash-put
/usr/bin/trash-restore
/usr/bin/trash-rm
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trash_cli-0.21.4.18-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trash_cli-0.21.4.18-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trash_cli-0.21.4.18-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trash_cli-0.21.4.18-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trash_cli-0.21.4.18-py3.6.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trash_cli-0.21.4.18-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/empty.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/empty.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/fs.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/fs.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/fstab.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/fstab.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/list.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/list.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/list_mount_points.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/list_mount_points.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/put.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/put.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/restore.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/restore.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/rm.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/rm.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/scripts.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/scripts.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/trash.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/__pycache__/trash.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/empty.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/fs.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/fstab.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/list.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/list_mount_points.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/put.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/restore.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/rm.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/scripts.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/trashcli/trash.py
/usr/share/doc/trash-cli
/usr/share/doc/trash-cli/README.rst
/usr/share/man/man1/trash-empty.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/trash-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/trash-put.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/trash-restore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/trash-rm.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install trash-cli on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.