How To Install xclip on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xclip on CentOS 8.
What is xclip
xclip is a command line utility that is designed to run on any system with an X11 implementation. It provides an interface to X selections (“the clipboard”) from the command line. It can read data from standard in or a file and place it in an X selection for pasting into other X applications. xclip can also print an X selection to standard out, which can then be redirected to a file or another program.
We can use yum or dnf to install xclip on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xclip.
Install xclip 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 xclip using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xclip
Install xclip 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 xclip using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xclip
How To Uninstall xclip on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xclip package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xclip
xclip Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/xclip
/usr/bin/xclip-copyfile
/usr/bin/xclip-cutfile
/usr/bin/xclip-pastefile
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/4e5e152946efe756bb276bce355f17983f2822
/usr/share/doc/xclip
/usr/share/doc/xclip/README
/usr/share/licenses/xclip
/usr/share/licenses/xclip/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/xclip-copyfile.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xclip.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xclip on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.