How To Install c-ares on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install c-ares on Rocky Linux 8. c-ares is A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install c-ares on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `c-ares`

c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named ‘ares’, written by Greg Hudson at MIT.

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

Install c-ares 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 c-ares using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install c-ares

Install c-ares 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 c-ares using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install c-ares

How To Uninstall c-ares on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the c-ares package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove c-ares

c-ares Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/b58f4fb5874faacc73b0c483d8e357b62fc044
/usr/lib/libcares.so.2
/usr/lib/libcares.so.2.2.0
/usr/share/doc/c-ares
/usr/share/doc/c-ares/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/c-ares/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/c-ares/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/c-ares/README.cares
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/4c5543e80867c2eb9710bc4e3db87c6a623f59
/usr/lib64/libcares.so.2
/usr/lib64/libcares.so.2.2.0
/usr/share/doc/c-ares
/usr/share/doc/c-ares/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/c-ares/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/c-ares/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/c-ares/README.cares

References

c-ares website

Summary

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