How To Install bind-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-libs on Rocky Linux 8. bind-libs is Libraries used by the BIND DNS packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `bind-libs`

Contains heavyweight version of BIND suite libraries used by both named DNS server and utilities in bind-utils package.

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

Install bind-libs 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 bind-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bind-libs

Install bind-libs 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 bind-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bind-libs

How To Uninstall bind-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the bind-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bind-libs

bind-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/5648341aa7e2ca6782c8fbc704617007c85b81
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/da4d10af690cabb06538189ec0573771a737cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/2face2efbcf94765c00ffe0c4607f917e8ac0a
/usr/lib64/libbind9.so.161
/usr/lib64/libbind9.so.161.0.4
/usr/lib64/libisccc.so.161
/usr/lib64/libisccc.so.161.0.1
/usr/lib64/liblwres.so.161
/usr/lib64/liblwres.so.161.0.4
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/2a7a1d144412bb8662ac656bc154f43635c4c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/dad5855239cdb4d408681485952865d3f3e712
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/6b40cea8d46fd43ce320b8c12d421934e5f076
/usr/lib/libbind9.so.161
/usr/lib/libbind9.so.161.0.4
/usr/lib/libisccc.so.161
/usr/lib/libisccc.so.161.0.1
/usr/lib/liblwres.so.161
/usr/lib/liblwres.so.161.0.4

References

bind-libs website

Summary

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