Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install avahi-glib on CentOS 8.
What is avahi-glib
Libraries for easy use of avahi from glib applications. avahi-glib 0.7 20.el8 x86_64 14 k avahi-0.7-20.el8.src.rpm baseos Glib libraries for avahi http LGPLv2+ Libraries for easy use of avahi from glib applications.
We can use yum or dnf to install avahi-glib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install avahi-glib.
Install avahi-glib 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 avahi-glib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install avahi-glib
Install avahi-glib 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 avahi-glib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install avahi-glib
How To Uninstall avahi-glib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the avahi-glib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove avahi-glib
avahi-glib Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/1e1b4f483867d53e453e4860d2b73a6d478259
/usr/lib/libavahi-glib.so.1
/usr/lib/libavahi-glib.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/0c35519a93c7e874013431d5ac8392f3cc5799
/usr/lib64/libavahi-glib.so.1
/usr/lib64/libavahi-glib.so.1.0.2
References
- [avahi-glib website](http://avahi.org
http://avahi.org)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install avahi-glib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
