How To Install flatpak-spawn on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-spawn on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 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-spawn using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install flatpak-spawn
Install flatpak-spawn 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-spawn using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flatpak-spawn
How To Uninstall flatpak-spawn on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the flatpak-spawn package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove flatpak-spawn
flatpak-spawn Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/flatpak-spawn
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/da25e02ef59156d350589e201ff2b0dc2f6fe2
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-spawn
/usr/share/licenses/flatpak-spawn/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flatpak-spawn on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.