How To Install pixeltool 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 qtchooser

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install qtchooser

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

What is pixeltool 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 pixeltool 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 pixeltool 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 pixeltool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qtchooser

Install pixeltool on CentOS 8 using yum

Because pixeltool 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 pixeltool package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qtchooser

How to upgrade (update) a single package pixeltool using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update qtchooser

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade qtchooser

How to Upgrade pixeltool 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 qtchooser

How To remove pixeltool from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the pixeltool package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove qtchooser

Extra info and code examples

Qt is a cross-platform C++ application framework. Qt's primary feature is its rich set of widgets that provide standard GUI functionality. This package contains a set of applications to browse the documentation, translate applications, generate help files and other stuff that helps in Qt development. These tools are among others: * assistant * designer * linguist * pixeltool * qdbusviewer

Conclusion

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

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