How To Install gssdp on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gssdp on Rocky Linux 8. gssdp is Resource discovery and announcement over SSDP

Introduction

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

What is gssdp

GSSDP implements resource discovery and announcement over SSDP and is part of gUPnP. GUPnP is an object-oriented open source framework for creating UPnP devices and control points, written in C using GObject and libsoup. The GUPnP API is intended to be easy to use, efficient and flexible.

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

Install gssdp 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 gssdp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gssdp

Install gssdp 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 gssdp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gssdp

How To Uninstall gssdp on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove gssdp

gssdp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/6d45c9fffcb6538581b6d507432ee10425318d
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/GSSDP-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgssdp-1.0.so.3
/usr/lib/libgssdp-1.0.so.3.0.1
/usr/share/doc/gssdp
/usr/share/doc/gssdp/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gssdp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gssdp/README
/usr/share/gssdp
/usr/share/licenses/gssdp
/usr/share/licenses/gssdp/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/7385b7e9e90d8da030fee802a501c5c16d6db0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/GSSDP-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgssdp-1.0.so.3
/usr/lib64/libgssdp-1.0.so.3.0.1
/usr/share/doc/gssdp
/usr/share/doc/gssdp/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gssdp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gssdp/README
/usr/share/gssdp
/usr/share/licenses/gssdp
/usr/share/licenses/gssdp/COPYING

References

Summary

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