Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice-libs on CentOS 8.
What is accountsservice-libs
The accountsservice-libs package contains a library that can be used by applications that want to interact with the accountsservice daemon. accountsservice-libs 0.6.55 1.el8 x86_64 96 k accountsservice-0.6.55-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Client-side library to talk to accountsservice https GPLv3+ The accountsservice-libs package contains a library that can be used by applications that want to interact with the accountsservice daemon.
We can use yum or dnf to install accountsservice-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install accountsservice-libs.
Install accountsservice-libs on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install accountsservice-libs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install accountsservice-libs
Install accountsservice-libs on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install accountsservice-libs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install accountsservice-libs
How To Uninstall accountsservice-libs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the accountsservice-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove accountsservice-libs
accountsservice-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/e698f89b8fbc85f181483176d8e1ec576111ea
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/AccountsService-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libaccountsservice.so.0
/usr/lib64/libaccountsservice.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/04c3b31c7f2936fb47b3cfd4d148b15d0a74a1
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/AccountsService-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libaccountsservice.so.0
/usr/lib/libaccountsservice.so.0.0.0
References
- [accountsservice-libs website](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/AccountsService/
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/AccountsService/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
