How to install xclip on Centos 8?

Question

I recently started using Centos 8 on my Workstation and there is no xsel or xclip

Is there something wrong or is it on purpose, that xclip is not available?

Here is the output of dnf repolist, maybe I'm missing some must-have repo?

repo id                                                                             repo name                                                                                                               status
AppStream                                                                           CentOS-8 - AppStream                                                                                                    5.089
Atom                                                                                Atom Editor                                                                                                               142
BaseOS                                                                              CentOS-8 - Base                                                                                                         2.843
amdgpu-pro-local                                                                    AMD amdgpu Pro local repository                                                                                            70
docker-ce-stable                                                                    Docker CE Stable - x86_64                                                                                                  57
*epel                                                                               Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                                                                          3.643
extras                                                                              CentOS-8 - Extras                                                                                                           3
virtualbox                                                                          Oracle Linux / RHEL / CentOS-8 / x86_64 - VirtualBox                                                                        4

Answer 1

You can compile from yourself:

# Obtain the sourcecode
git clone https://github.com/astrand/xclip.git
./bootstrap
./configure
make
make install

Verify that is installed:

man xclip

Answer 2

First Enable EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repo on CentOS 8 to install extra packages such xclip.

Step 1: Install epel repo

# yum install epel-release.noarch
             or
# dnf install epel-release

Step 2: Install xclip from the EPEL repo

# dnf install xclip
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Dependencies resolved.
=============================================================================================================================================================
 Package                             Architecture                         Version                                   Repository                          Size
=============================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 xclip                               x86_64                               0.13-8.el8                                epel                                35 k

Transaction Summary
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Install  1 Package

Answer 3

In Centos 8 while running pyperclip.copy("Hello"), I found centos 8 don't have xclip and so the package gives me error. I have search all packages but repository of Centos8 don't have any similar packages.

I resolve this in following steps.

Install libXmu and X11 development library

sudo yum install libXmu-devel libX11-devel

Obtain the sourcecode

git clone https://github.com/astrand/xclip.git

./bootstrap

./configure

make

sudo make install

Then test install man xclip

Now I can use pyperclip in python to use clipboard.