How To Install oddjob on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install oddjob on Rocky Linux 8. oddjob is A D-Bus service which runs odd jobs on behalf of client applications

Introduction

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

What is oddjob

oddjob is a D-Bus service which performs particular tasks for clients which connect to it and issue requests using the system-wide message bus.

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

Install oddjob 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 oddjob using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install oddjob

Install oddjob 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 oddjob using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install oddjob

How To Uninstall oddjob on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove oddjob

oddjob Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/oddjob.conf
/etc/oddjob
/etc/oddjobd.conf
/etc/oddjobd.conf.d
/etc/oddjobd.conf.d/oddjobd-introspection.conf
/usr/bin/oddjob_request
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/62cf55044457ca25544caa210d2f4e558485a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/7288b10649eaffadd97baab3084e5dd2975201
/usr/lib/systemd/system/oddjobd.service
/usr/libexec/oddjob
/usr/libexec/oddjob/sanity.sh
/usr/sbin/oddjobd
/usr/share/doc/oddjob
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/QUICKSTART
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/oddjob.html
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/oddjobconfig.dtd
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/reload
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/etc
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/etc/dbus-1
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/etc/dbus-1/system.d
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/etc/dbus-1/system.d/oddjob-sample.conf
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/etc/oddjobd.conf.d
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/etc/oddjobd.conf.d/oddjobd-sample.conf
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/usr
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/usr/lib64
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/usr/lib64/oddjob
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/usr/lib64/oddjob/oddjob-sample.sh
/usr/share/man/man1/oddjob_request.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/oddjob.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/oddjobd-introspection.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/oddjobd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/oddjobd.8.gz

References

Summary

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