How To Install f-spot-import on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install f-spot

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install f-spot

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is f-spot-import and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install f-spot-import on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install f-spot-import on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install f-spot-import using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install f-spot

Install f-spot-import on CentOS 8 using yum

Because f-spot-import is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install f-spot-import package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install f-spot

How to upgrade (update) a single package f-spot-import using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like f-spot-import in this example you should use the following command:

yum update f-spot

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade f-spot

How to Upgrade f-spot-import on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update f-spot

How To remove f-spot-import from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the f-spot-import package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove f-spot

Extra info and code examples

F-Spot is a full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop. It simplifies digital photography by providing intuitive tools to help you share, touch-up, find and organize your images. It allows for importing of your existing photo collections, tagging photos with identifiers, as well as doing simple edits of photos (e.g. rotating).

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install f-spot-import using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the f-spot-import from CentOS 8.

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