How To Install xforms on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xforms on CentOS 8.
What is xforms
XForms is a GUI toolkit based on Xlib for X Window Systems. It features a rich set of objects, such as buttons, sliders, browsers, and menus etc. integrated into an easy and efficient object/event callback execution model that allows fast and easy construction of X-applications. In addition, the library is extensible and new objects can easily be created and added to the library.
We can use yum or dnf to install xforms on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xforms.
Install xforms 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 xforms using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xforms
Install xforms 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 xforms using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xforms
How To Uninstall xforms on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xforms package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xforms
xforms Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/96010541882ebf14794cf8cfd76af766d12bb1
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/04a5a14f624102dc4b01bb03987a88a6b4192d
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/736f461c576656715f481fee5b37c5711ca417
/usr/lib64/libflimage.so.2
/usr/lib64/libflimage.so.2.1.3
/usr/lib64/libforms.so.2
/usr/lib64/libforms.so.2.1.3
/usr/lib64/libformsGL.so.2
/usr/lib64/libformsGL.so.2.1.3
/usr/share/doc/xforms
/usr/share/doc/xforms/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xforms/README
/usr/share/licenses/xforms
/usr/share/licenses/xforms/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/xforms/Copyright
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xforms on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.