How To Install inotify-tools on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install inotify-tools on Rocky Linux 8. inotify-tools is Command line utilities for inotify

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install inotify-tools on Rocky Linux 8.

What is inotify-tools

inotify-tools is a set of command-line programs for Linux providing a simple interface to inotify. These programs can be used to monitor and act upon filesystem events.

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

Install inotify-tools 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 inotify-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install inotify-tools

Install inotify-tools 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 inotify-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install inotify-tools

How To Uninstall inotify-tools on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the inotify-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove inotify-tools

inotify-tools Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/inotifywait
/usr/bin/inotifywatch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/50cc665007b18f08fb28fd1664b4363e77c6bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/f0034d7ea71f1d0011c7f0a9ba5c45c11f592b
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/b094946e4a3255959143feecd88504a6687c24
/usr/lib64/libinotifytools.so.0
/usr/lib64/libinotifytools.so.0.4.1
/usr/share/doc/inotify-tools
/usr/share/doc/inotify-tools/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/inotify-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/inotify-tools/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/inotify-tools/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/inotify-tools/README
/usr/share/man/man1/inotifywait.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/inotifywatch.1.gz

References

Summary

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