How To Install libwps on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwps on Rocky Linux 8. libwps is A library for import of Microsoft Works documents

Introduction

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

What is libwps

libwps is a library for import of Microsoft Works text documents, spreadsheets and (in a limited way) databases. Full list of supported formats is available at https

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

Install libwps 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 libwps using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libwps

Install libwps 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 libwps using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libwps

How To Uninstall libwps on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libwps

libwps Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/217729393e522bbaeeaea09075650f113abbed
/usr/lib64/libwps-0.4.so.4
/usr/lib64/libwps-0.4.so.4.0.9
/usr/share/doc/libwps
/usr/share/doc/libwps/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/libwps/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libwps/README
/usr/share/licenses/libwps
/usr/share/licenses/libwps/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/licenses/libwps/COPYING.MPL
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/987cbcce7aa1bfdb635130265bea27b274b495
/usr/lib/libwps-0.4.so.4
/usr/lib/libwps-0.4.so.4.0.9
/usr/share/doc/libwps
/usr/share/doc/libwps/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/libwps/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libwps/README
/usr/share/licenses/libwps
/usr/share/licenses/libwps/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/licenses/libwps/COPYING.MPL

References

Summary

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