How To Install wxGTK3-webview on CentOS 8

wxGTK3-webview is WebView add-on for the wxWidgets library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wxGTK3-webview on CentOS 8.

What is wxGTK3-webview

WebView add-on for the wxWidgets library. 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-webview on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wxGTK3-webview.

Install wxGTK3-webview 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-webview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wxGTK3-webview

Install wxGTK3-webview 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-webview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wxGTK3-webview

How To Uninstall wxGTK3-webview on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the wxGTK3-webview package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wxGTK3-webview

wxGTK3-webview Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/5fe1ab617dbb8fa2f65163d55b69468f560c3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/3b32726c91e87ed959070c2980dd0911d8d99f
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_webview-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_gtk3u_webview-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/wx
/usr/lib64/wx/3.0
/usr/lib64/wx/3.0/web-extensions
/usr/lib64/wx/3.0/web-extensions/webkit2_extu-3.0.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wxGTK3-webview on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.