How To Install leveldb on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install leveldb on Rocky Linux 8. leveldb is A fast and lightweight key/value database library by Google

Introduction

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

What is leveldb

LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.

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

Install leveldb 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 leveldb using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install leveldb

Install leveldb 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 leveldb using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install leveldb

How To Uninstall leveldb on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove leveldb

leveldb Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/892197d99b4c21ddd0beda04c3ddbd044868de
/usr/lib64/libleveldb.so.1
/usr/lib64/libleveldb.so.1.22.0
/usr/share/doc/leveldb
/usr/share/doc/leveldb/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/leveldb/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/leveldb/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/leveldb
/usr/share/licenses/leveldb/LICENSE

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Summary

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