How To Install flatpak-spawn on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-spawn on CentOS 8. flatpak-spawn is Command-line frontend for the org.freedesktop.Flatpak service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-spawn on CentOS 8.

What is flatpak-spawn

This package contains the flatpak-spawn command-line utility. It can be used to talk to the org.freedesktop.Flatpak service to spawn new sandboxes, run commands on the host, or use one of the session or system helpers.

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

Install flatpak-spawn on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install flatpak-spawn

Install flatpak-spawn on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install flatpak-spawn

How To Uninstall flatpak-spawn on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove flatpak-spawn

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Summary

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