How To Install wxGTK3 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wxGTK3 on CentOS 8.
What is wxGTK3
wxWidgets is the GTK port of the C++ cross-platform wxWidgets GUI library, offering classes for all common GUI controls as well as a comprehensive set of helper classes for most common application tasks, ranging from networking to HTML display and image manipulation.
We can use yum or dnf to install wxGTK3 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wxGTK3.
Install wxGTK3 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 wxGTK3 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wxGTK3
Install wxGTK3 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 wxGTK3 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wxGTK3
How To Uninstall wxGTK3 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the wxGTK3 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wxGTK3
wxGTK3 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/064e37f093fe51874880ff4883d37f80c20c75
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/1b850a1a1c60f026cefa4ded2e03b772cc3bdc
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/4552f024756db890159c469014738ee3e58931
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/102810cbb4cb70a08628363144439854f4dd3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/ece07e0edac9df6a7f6b8fdebdd803d0f85ecf
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/ae95997ef3c295519bab91997394450713cc60
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/7edba81406eaa938ae09620da716f09326edcd
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/31d0aeee9512388b147093e827a144eb746920
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/3db8d7c593909a6ea4baf05a31c019adaa832e
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/83b9d628453e10ecd3ef66efb74d7800805555
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_adv-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_adv-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_aui-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_aui-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_core-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_core-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_html-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_html-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_propgrid-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_propgrid-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_qa-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_qa-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_ribbon-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_ribbon-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_richtext-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_richtext-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_stc-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_stc-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_xrc-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_xrc-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/share/doc/wxGTK3
/usr/share/doc/wxGTK3/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxGTK3/gpl.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxGTK3/lgpl.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxGTK3/licence.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxGTK3/licendoc.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxGTK3/preamble.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxGTK3/readme.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wxGTK3 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.