Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snapd-glib on CentOS 8.
What is snapd-glib
snapd-glib is a library that provides an interface to communicate with snapd for GLib based applications.
We can use yum or dnf to install snapd-glib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install snapd-glib.
Install snapd-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 snapd-glib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install snapd-glib
Install snapd-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 snapd-glib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install snapd-glib
How To Uninstall snapd-glib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the snapd-glib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove snapd-glib
snapd-glib Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/ccd4931037867b9b221380c1d0a32980f26177
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Snapd-1.typelib
/usr/lib64/libsnapd-glib.so.1
/usr/lib64/libsnapd-glib.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/snapd-glib
/usr/share/doc/snapd-glib/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/snapd-glib
/usr/share/licenses/snapd-glib/COPYING.LGPL2
/usr/share/licenses/snapd-glib/COPYING.LGPL3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install snapd-glib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
