How To Install anope-gnutls on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install anope-gnutls on Rocky Linux 8. anope-gnutls is GnuTLS module for Anope IRC services

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install anope-gnutls on Rocky Linux 8.

What is anope-gnutls

Anope is a set of IRC services designed for flexibility and ease of use. This package provides an Anope module using GnuTLS to e.g. connect to the uplink server(s) via SSL/TLS.

We can use yum or dnf to install anope-gnutls on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install anope-gnutls.

Install anope-gnutls on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install anope-gnutls using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install anope-gnutls

Install anope-gnutls on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install anope-gnutls using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install anope-gnutls

How To Uninstall anope-gnutls on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the anope-gnutls package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove anope-gnutls

anope-gnutls Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/248fd7a0d858aa2f1b6af94083e276478fd479
/usr/lib64/anope/modules/m_ssl_gnutls.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install anope-gnutls on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.