How To Install kde-partitionmanager on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install kde-partitionmanager on CentOS 8. kde-partitionmanager is KDE Partition Manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kde-partitionmanager on CentOS 8.

What is kde-partitionmanager

KDE Partition Manager is a utility program to help you manage the disk devices, partitions and file systems on your computer. It allows you to easily create, copy, move, delete, resize without losing data, backup and restore partitions. KDE Partition Manager supports a large number of file systems, including ext2/3/4, reiserfs, NTFS, FAT16/32, jfs, xfs and more. Starting from version 1.9.50 KDE Partition Manager has become the GUI part of KPMcore (KDE PartitionManager core) which contain the libraries used to manipulate filesystems.

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

Install kde-partitionmanager on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install kde-partitionmanager

Install kde-partitionmanager 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 kde-partitionmanager using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kde-partitionmanager

How To Uninstall kde-partitionmanager on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the kde-partitionmanager package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kde-partitionmanager

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Summary

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