How To Install gloox on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gloox on Rocky Linux 8. gloox is A rock-solid, full-featured Jabber/XMPP client C++ library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gloox on Rocky Linux 8.

What is gloox

gloox is a rock-solid, full-featured Jabber/XMPP client library written in C++. It makes writing spec-compliant clients easy and allows for hassle-free integration of Jabber/XMPP functionality into existing applications.

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

Install gloox 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 gloox using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gloox

Install gloox 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 gloox using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gloox

How To Uninstall gloox on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the gloox package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gloox

gloox Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/c14091f12411023addba5278474892e0212b84
/usr/lib64/libgloox.so.17
/usr/lib64/libgloox.so.17.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/gloox
/usr/share/licenses/gloox/LICENSE

References

Summary

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