How To Install xforms-devel on CentOS 8

xforms-devel is Development files for the XForms toolkit library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xforms-devel on CentOS 8.

What is xforms-devel

Development files for the XForms toolkit library.

We can use yum or dnf to install xforms-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xforms-devel.

Install xforms-devel 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-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xforms-devel

Install xforms-devel 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-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xforms-devel

How To Uninstall xforms-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the xforms-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove xforms-devel

xforms-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/fd2ps
/usr/bin/fdesign
/usr/include/flimage.h
/usr/include/forms.h
/usr/include/glcanvas.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/8bf6e9b7eb89f537b4b89db8c7496f8c8f8c64
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/ae38a854519c1cd696c51aec0a32063bafb106
/usr/lib64/libflimage.so
/usr/lib64/libforms.so
/usr/lib64/libformsGL.so
/usr/share/man/man1/fd2ps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fdesign.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/xforms.5.gz

References

Summary

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