How To Install libasyncns on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libasyncns on Rocky Linux 8. libasyncns is Asynchronous Name Service Library

Introduction

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

What is libasyncns

A small and lightweight library that implements easy to use asynchronous wrappers around the libc NSS functions getaddrinfo(), res_query() and related.

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

Install libasyncns 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 libasyncns using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libasyncns

Install libasyncns 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 libasyncns using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libasyncns

How To Uninstall libasyncns on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libasyncns

libasyncns Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/3979907c6d8f76d443515f35321f97bfe53c76
/usr/lib64/libasyncns.so.0
/usr/lib64/libasyncns.so.0.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libasyncns
/usr/share/doc/libasyncns/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libasyncns/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/a594c177f1ffd2ba0cafbd031fa80eb20262a9
/usr/lib/libasyncns.so.0
/usr/lib/libasyncns.so.0.3.1
/usr/share/doc/libasyncns
/usr/share/doc/libasyncns/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libasyncns/README

References

Summary

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