How To Install flatpak-session-helper on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-session-helper on Rocky Linux 8. flatpak-session-helper is User D-Bus service used by flatpak and others

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-session-helper on Rocky Linux 8.

What is flatpak-session-helper

This package contains the org.freedesktop.Flatpak user D-Bus service that’s used by flatpak and other packages.

We can use yum or dnf to install flatpak-session-helper on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flatpak-session-helper.

Install flatpak-session-helper on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install flatpak-session-helper using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flatpak-session-helper

Install flatpak-session-helper on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install flatpak-session-helper using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flatpak-session-helper

How To Uninstall flatpak-session-helper on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the flatpak-session-helper package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove flatpak-session-helper

flatpak-session-helper Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/21f3108535cb98d34fdc9983ca3b655cff3025
/usr/lib/systemd/user/flatpak-session-helper.service
/usr/libexec/flatpak-session-helper
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Flatpak.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Flatpak.service
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-session-helper
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-session-helper/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-session-helper on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.