How To Install giflib on Rocky Linux 8
In this tutorial we learn how to install giflib on Rocky Linux 8. giflib is A library and utilities for processing GIFs
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install giflib
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is giflib
giflib is a library for reading and writing gif images.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install giflib
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install giflib.
Install giflib 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 giflib
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install giflib
Install giflib 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 giflib
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install giflib
How To Uninstall giflib on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the giflib
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove giflib
giflib Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/fa7d70aee05fdce6b367aa763bc5a3430890be
/usr/lib64/libgif.so.7
/usr/lib64/libgif.so.7.0.0
/usr/share/doc/giflib
/usr/share/doc/giflib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/giflib/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/giflib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/giflib/README
/usr/share/licenses/giflib
/usr/share/licenses/giflib/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/3f807fbb1e13d33f6d694cdb349a4aa4d9dcf1
/usr/lib/libgif.so.7
/usr/lib/libgif.so.7.0.0
/usr/share/doc/giflib
/usr/share/doc/giflib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/giflib/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/giflib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/giflib/README
/usr/share/licenses/giflib
/usr/share/licenses/giflib/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install giflib
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.