How To Install usbguard-notifier on CentOS 8

usbguard-notifier is A tool for detecting usbguard policy and device presence changes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install usbguard-notifier on CentOS 8.

What is usbguard-notifier

The usbguard-notifier package detects usbguard policy modifications as well as device presence changes and displays them as pop-up notifications.

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

Install usbguard-notifier 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 usbguard-notifier using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install usbguard-notifier

Install usbguard-notifier 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 usbguard-notifier using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install usbguard-notifier

How To Uninstall usbguard-notifier on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the usbguard-notifier package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove usbguard-notifier

usbguard-notifier Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/usbguard-notifier
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/1a06b9dc8547e2c22290f336ac03bd47f56069
/usr/lib/systemd/user/usbguard-notifier.service
/usr/share/doc/usbguard-notifier
/usr/share/doc/usbguard-notifier/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/usbguard-notifier/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/usbguard-notifier
/usr/share/licenses/usbguard-notifier/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/usbguard-notifier.1.gz

References

Summary

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