How To Install wxBase3 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wxBase3 on CentOS 8.
What is wxBase3
Every wxWidgets application must link against this library. It contains mandatory classes that any wxWidgets code depends on (like wxString) and portability classes that abstract differences between platforms. wxBase can be used to develop console mode applications – it does not require any GUI libraries or the X Window System.
We can use yum or dnf to install wxBase3 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wxBase3.
Install wxBase3 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 wxBase3 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wxBase3
Install wxBase3 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 wxBase3 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wxBase3
How To Uninstall wxBase3 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the wxBase3 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wxBase3
wxBase3 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/c2442802505cb9b54643287ccb6508eb5886fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/5e7174247789426f1372d620c0446f4911c9e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/18be856d071641c4207b936e3f9c62ab72366a
/usr/lib64/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_net-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_net-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_xml-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_xml-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/gpl.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/lgpl.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/licence.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/licendoc.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/preamble.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/readme.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wxBase3 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.