How To Install clang on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clang
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is clang
clang 1. A loud, resonant, metallic sound. 2. The strident call of a crane or goose. 3. C-language family front-end toolkit. The goal of the Clang project is to create a new C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end for the LLVM compiler. Its tools are built as libraries and designed to be loosely-coupled and extensible.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install clang
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clang.
Install clang 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 clang
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clang
Install clang 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 clang
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clang
How To Uninstall clang on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the clang
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clang
clang Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/clang
/usr/bin/clang++
/usr/bin/clang++-11
/usr/bin/clang-11
/usr/bin/clang-cl
/usr/bin/clang-cpp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/839d0defff9f27929447594424ef4afa581178
/usr/share/licenses/clang
/usr/share/licenses/clang/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/share/man/man1/clang++-11.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clang++.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clang-11.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clang.1.gz
/usr/bin/clang
/usr/bin/clang++
/usr/bin/clang++-11
/usr/bin/clang-11
/usr/bin/clang-cl
/usr/bin/clang-cpp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/31d016a35af8b4776334a4a5f8f3fb8e8ab301
/usr/share/licenses/clang
/usr/share/licenses/clang/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/share/man/man1/clang++-11.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clang++.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clang-11.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clang.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clang
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.