Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install barcode on CentOS 8.
What is barcode
Barcode is meant to solve most needs in barcode creation with a conventional printer. It can create printouts for the conventional product tagging standards as a few other formats. Ouput is generated as either Postscript or Encapsulated Postscript.
We can use yum or dnf to install barcode on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install barcode.
Install barcode 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 barcode using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install barcode
Install barcode 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 barcode using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install barcode
How To Uninstall barcode on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the barcode package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove barcode
barcode Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/barcode
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/fc20d6908c11771052ea589039ac4a2b807fb4
/usr/share/doc/barcode
/usr/share/doc/barcode/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/barcode/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/barcode/README
/usr/share/doc/barcode/TODO
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/Bugs-and-Pending-Issues.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/Overview.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/PCL-Output.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/Supported-Encodings.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/Supported-Flags.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/The-API.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/The-Barcode-Object.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/The-Command-Line.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/The-Field-List.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/The-Intermediate-Representation.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/The-barcode-Executable.html
/usr/share/doc/barcode/barcode.html/index.html
/usr/share/info/barcode.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/barcode.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install barcode on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
