How To Install wayland-protocols-devel on CentOS 8

wayland-protocols-devel is Wayland protocols that adds functionality not available in the core protocol

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wayland-protocols-devel on CentOS 8.

What is `wayland-protocols-devel`

wayland-protocols contains Wayland protocols that adds functionality not available in the Wayland core protocol. Such protocols either adds completely new functionality, or extends the functionality of some other protocol either in Wayland core, or some other protocol in wayland-protocols.

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

Install wayland-protocols-devel 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 wayland-protocols-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wayland-protocols-devel

Install wayland-protocols-devel 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 wayland-protocols-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wayland-protocols-devel

How To Uninstall wayland-protocols-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the wayland-protocols-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wayland-protocols-devel

wayland-protocols-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/wayland-protocols-devel
/usr/share/doc/wayland-protocols-devel/README
/usr/share/licenses/wayland-protocols-devel
/usr/share/licenses/wayland-protocols-devel/COPYING
/usr/share/pkgconfig/wayland-protocols.pc
/usr/share/wayland-protocols
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/stable
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/stable/presentation-time
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/stable/presentation-time/presentation-time.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/stable/viewporter
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/stable/viewporter/viewporter.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/stable/xdg-shell
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/stable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/fullscreen-shell
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/fullscreen-shell/fullscreen-shell-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/idle-inhibit
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/idle-inhibit/idle-inhibit-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/input-method
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/input-method/input-method-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/input-timestamps
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/input-timestamps/input-timestamps-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/keyboard-shortcuts-inhibit
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/keyboard-shortcuts-inhibit/keyboard-shortcuts-inhibit-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/linux-dmabuf
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/linux-dmabuf/linux-dmabuf-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/linux-explicit-synchronization
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/linux-explicit-synchronization/linux-explicit-synchronization-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/pointer-constraints
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/pointer-constraints/pointer-constraints-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/pointer-gestures
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/pointer-gestures/pointer-gestures-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/primary-selection
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/primary-selection/primary-selection-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/relative-pointer
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/relative-pointer/relative-pointer-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/tablet
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/tablet/tablet-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/tablet/tablet-unstable-v2.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/text-input
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/text-input/text-input-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/text-input/text-input-unstable-v3.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/xdg-decoration
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/xdg-decoration/xdg-decoration-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/xdg-foreign
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/xdg-foreign/xdg-foreign-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/xdg-foreign/xdg-foreign-unstable-v2.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/xdg-output
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/xdg-output/xdg-output-unstable-v1.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/xdg-shell
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell-unstable-v5.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell-unstable-v6.xml
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/xwayland-keyboard-grab
/usr/share/wayland-protocols/unstable/xwayland-keyboard-grab/xwayland-keyboard-grab-unstable-v1.xml

References

wayland-protocols-devel website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wayland-protocols-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.