How To Install kconfig-gconf 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 kconfig-frontends

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install kconfig-frontends

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

What is kconfig-gconf 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 kconfig-gconf 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 kconfig-gconf 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 kconfig-gconf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kconfig-frontends

Install kconfig-gconf on CentOS 8 using yum

Because kconfig-gconf 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 kconfig-gconf package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kconfig-frontends

How to upgrade (update) a single package kconfig-gconf using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like kconfig-gconf in this example you should use the following command:

yum update kconfig-frontends

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade kconfig-frontends

How to Upgrade kconfig-gconf 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 kconfig-frontends

How To remove kconfig-gconf from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the kconfig-gconf package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove kconfig-frontends

Extra info and code examples

Kconfig-frontends provides the kconfig parser, as well as all the frontends (dialog, ncurses, Qt and Gtk based) to configure and generate config files and config headers for various projects.

Conclusion

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

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