How To Install xforms on CentOS 8

xforms is XForms toolkit library

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.