How To Install kf5-kinit on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install kf5-kinit on Rocky Linux 8. kf5-kinit is KDE Frameworks 5 tier 3 solution for process launching

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kf5-kinit on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `kf5-kinit`

kdeinit is a process launcher somewhat similar to the famous init used for booting UNIX. It launches processes by forking and then loading a dynamic library which should contain a ‘kdemain(…)’ function.

We can use yum or dnf to install kf5-kinit on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kf5-kinit.

Install kf5-kinit 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 kf5-kinit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kf5-kinit

Install kf5-kinit 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 kf5-kinit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kf5-kinit

How To Uninstall kf5-kinit on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the kf5-kinit package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kf5-kinit

kf5-kinit Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/kdeinit5
/usr/bin/kdeinit5_shutdown
/usr/bin/kdeinit5_wrapper
/usr/bin/kshell5
/usr/bin/kwrapper5
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/26cd1ab2a225a100633606e7a0edea1657a216
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/ceabb02dddb13dc02f5b84776f7ed616d6b610
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/6c9c898d6c136772ed04f1d43a89eddce47f1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/7fa4c6cbc25ae7ab2c825776e6d3ec63f09e71
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/c0b3acf497f2ba278b8fa860a44854f2160a33
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/02a40ba2bbffcd88a02a4d4b1ccca7dd134e6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/3016a704ad4a7b4cc03ed99027d5f3505c60c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/2971e7f614600de30f74aa27d82c0cef25f66c
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/abe20780702cc4acde40a3c4dcbbbeb53795fd
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_klauncher.so
/usr/libexec/kf5/klauncher
/usr/libexec/kf5/start_kdeinit
/usr/libexec/kf5/start_kdeinit_wrapper
/usr/share/doc/kf5-kinit
/usr/share/doc/kf5-kinit/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/kf5-kinit
/usr/share/licenses/kf5-kinit/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/crh/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/csb/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/fy/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ha/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/hne/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/hsb/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/lb/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/se/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@ijekavian/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@ijekavianlatin/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/tt/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz@cyrillic/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/kinit5.mo
/usr/share/man/ca/man8/kdeinit5.8.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man8/kdeinit5.8.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man8/kdeinit5.8.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man8/kdeinit5.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/kdeinit5.8.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man8/kdeinit5.8.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man8/kdeinit5.8.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man8/kdeinit5.8.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man8/kdeinit5.8.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man8/kdeinit5.8.gz
/usr/share/qlogging-categories5/kinit.categories

References

kf5-kinit website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kf5-kinit on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.