How To Install xclip on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xclip on Rocky Linux 8.
What is xclip
xclip is a command line utility that is designed to run on any system with an X11 implementation. It provides an interface to X selections (“the clipboard”) from the command line. It can read data from standard in or a file and place it in an X selection for pasting into other X applications. xclip can also print an X selection to standard out, which can then be redirected to a file or another program.
We can use yum or dnf to install xclip on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xclip.
Install xclip 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 xclip using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xclip
Install xclip 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 xclip using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xclip
How To Uninstall xclip on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the xclip package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xclip
xclip Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/xclip
/usr/bin/xclip-copyfile
/usr/bin/xclip-cutfile
/usr/bin/xclip-pastefile
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/4e5e152946efe756bb276bce355f17983f2822
/usr/share/doc/xclip
/usr/share/doc/xclip/README
/usr/share/licenses/xclip
/usr/share/licenses/xclip/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/xclip-copyfile.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xclip.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xclip on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.