How To Install boost-system on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-system on Rocky Linux 8.
What is boost-system
Run-time component of Boost operating system support library, including the diagnostics support that is part of the C++11 standard library.
We can use yum or dnf to install boost-system on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install boost-system.
Install boost-system 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 boost-system using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install boost-system
Install boost-system 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 boost-system using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install boost-system
How To Uninstall boost-system on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the boost-system package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove boost-system
boost-system Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/088fb20620d6c01279fe6f86f9f2277fd4f382
/usr/lib64/libboost_system.so.1.66.0
/usr/share/licenses/boost-system
/usr/share/licenses/boost-system/LICENSE_1_0.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/3f87103e53cdbf7700f51866256c9ce4d6e43d
/usr/lib/libboost_system.so.1.66.0
/usr/share/licenses/boost-system
/usr/share/licenses/boost-system/LICENSE_1_0.txt
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-system on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
