How To Install libappindicator-gtk3 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libappindicator-gtk3 on Rocky Linux 8. libappindicator-gtk3 is Application indicators library - GTK 3

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libappindicator-gtk3 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `libappindicator-gtk3`

A library to allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar. Based on KSNI it also works in KDE and will fallback to generic Systray support if none of those are available. This package contains the GTK 3 version of this library.

We can use yum or dnf to install libappindicator-gtk3 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libappindicator-gtk3.

Install libappindicator-gtk3 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 libappindicator-gtk3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libappindicator-gtk3

Install libappindicator-gtk3 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 libappindicator-gtk3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libappindicator-gtk3

How To Uninstall libappindicator-gtk3 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libappindicator-gtk3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libappindicator-gtk3

libappindicator-gtk3 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/11f1f1437468abc8b9c10cac2355d28ae1e618
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/AppIndicator3-0.1.typelib
/usr/lib64/libappindicator3.so.1
/usr/lib64/libappindicator3.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-gtk3
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-gtk3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-gtk3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-gtk3/COPYING.LGPL.2.1
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-gtk3/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/87881d4b7bbe59e0a32309f0fae4fb7e111db3
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/AppIndicator3-0.1.typelib
/usr/lib/libappindicator3.so.1
/usr/lib/libappindicator3.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-gtk3
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-gtk3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-gtk3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-gtk3/COPYING.LGPL.2.1
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator-gtk3/README

References

libappindicator-gtk3 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libappindicator-gtk3 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.