How To Install libatomic on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libatomic on Rocky Linux 8. libatomic is The GNU Atomic library

Introduction

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

What is libatomic

This package contains the GNU Atomic library which is a GCC support runtime library for atomic operations not supported by hardware.

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

Install libatomic 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 libatomic using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libatomic

Install libatomic 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 libatomic using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libatomic

How To Uninstall libatomic on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libatomic

libatomic Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/9474aefa3e3c4ec391c00c8a61cbddae60dd10
/usr/lib64/libatomic.so.1
/usr/lib64/libatomic.so.1.2.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/ebd23c49566f871f9328ee5eefbf1bcfb50dad
/usr/lib/libatomic.so.1
/usr/lib/libatomic.so.1.2.0

References

Summary

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