How To Install foliate on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install foliate on Rocky Linux 8. foliate is Simple and modern GTK eBook reader

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install foliate on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `foliate`

A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer, built with GJS and Epub.js.

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

Install foliate 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 foliate using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install foliate

Install foliate 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 foliate using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install foliate

How To Uninstall foliate on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the foliate package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove foliate

foliate Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate
/usr/share/applications/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.desktop
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/__init__.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/compatibility_utils.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/kindleunpack.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_cover.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_dict.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_header.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_html.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_index.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_k8proc.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_k8resc.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_nav.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_ncx.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_opf.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_pagemap.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_sectioner.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_split.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_uncompress.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_utils.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobiml2xhtml.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/unipath.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/unpack_structure.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/epub.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/jszip.min.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/lookup.html
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/utils.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/viewer-nocsp.html
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/viewer.css
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/viewer.html
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/viewer.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.src.gresource
/usr/share/doc/foliate
/usr/share/doc/foliate/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/foliate
/usr/share/licenses/foliate/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/cs_CS/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/id_ID/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl_NL/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.appdata.xml

References

foliate website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install foliate on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.