How To Install libacl on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libacl on Rocky Linux 8. libacl is Dynamic library for access control list support

Introduction

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

What is libacl

This package contains the libacl.so dynamic library which contains the POSIX 1003.1e draft standard 17 functions for manipulating access control lists.

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

Install libacl 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 libacl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libacl

Install libacl 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 libacl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libacl

How To Uninstall libacl on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libacl

libacl Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/7c87748597b118067b927c7c7fe912c83013ba
/usr/lib/libacl.so.1
/usr/lib/libacl.so.1.1.2253
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/37e9a54630aa7eef8ffc16e35caae9dca1c44f
/usr/lib64/libacl.so.1
/usr/lib64/libacl.so.1.1.2253

References

Summary

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