How To Install libXcomp on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXcomp on Rocky Linux 8. libXcomp is NX differential compression library

Introduction

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

What is libXcomp

NX is a software suite from NoMachine which implements very efficient compression of the X11 protocol. This increases performance when using X applications over a network, especially a slow one. This package contains the NX differential compression library for X11.

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

Install libXcomp 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 libXcomp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libXcomp

Install libXcomp 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 libXcomp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libXcomp

How To Uninstall libXcomp on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libXcomp

libXcomp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/cd4b8066f46d5172a97a930a2ef24d539ee756
/usr/lib64/libXcomp.so.3
/usr/lib64/libXcomp.so.3.5.99
/usr/share/doc/libXcomp
/usr/share/doc/libXcomp/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/libXcomp
/usr/share/licenses/libXcomp/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libXcomp/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/libXcomp/LICENSE.nxcomp

References

Summary

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