How To Install wxBase3 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install wxBase3 on Rocky Linux 8. wxBase3 is Non-GUI support classes from the wxWidgets library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wxBase3 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is wxBase3

Every wxWidgets application must link against this library. It contains mandatory classes that any wxWidgets code depends on (like wxString) and portability classes that abstract differences between platforms. wxBase can be used to develop console mode applications – it does not require any GUI libraries or the X Window System.

We can use yum or dnf to install wxBase3 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wxBase3.

Install wxBase3 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 wxBase3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wxBase3

Install wxBase3 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 wxBase3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wxBase3

How To Uninstall wxBase3 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the wxBase3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wxBase3

wxBase3 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/c2442802505cb9b54643287ccb6508eb5886fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/5e7174247789426f1372d620c0446f4911c9e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/18be856d071641c4207b936e3f9c62ab72366a
/usr/lib64/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_net-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_net-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_xml-3.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libwx_baseu_xml-3.0.so.0.4.0
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/gpl.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/lgpl.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/licence.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/licendoc.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/preamble.txt
/usr/share/doc/wxBase3/readme.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wxBase3 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.