How To Install platform on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install platform on Rocky Linux 8. platform is Platform support library used by libCEC and binary add-ons for Kodi

Introduction

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

What is platform

Platform support library used by libCEC and binary add-ons for Kodi.

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

Install platform 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 platform using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install platform

Install platform 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 platform using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install platform

How To Uninstall platform on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove platform

platform Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/f85d0c0d9e8db743abb9b576fb17f66864b155
/usr/lib64/libp8-platform.so.2
/usr/lib64/libp8-platform.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/platform
/usr/share/doc/platform/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/platform
/usr/share/licenses/platform/gpl-2.0.txt

References

Summary

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