How To Install libblockdev-swap on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev-swap
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libblockdev-swap
The libblockdev library plugin (and in the same time a standalone library) providing the functionality related to swap devices.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libblockdev-swap
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libblockdev-swap.
Install libblockdev-swap 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 libblockdev-swap
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libblockdev-swap
Install libblockdev-swap 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 libblockdev-swap
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libblockdev-swap
How To Uninstall libblockdev-swap on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libblockdev-swap
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libblockdev-swap
libblockdev-swap Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/841fe993f9bbf28848c9f0e85bae81c472d001
/usr/lib64/libbd_swap.so.2
/usr/lib64/libbd_swap.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/b622c57911d71ccf65eebb4d5e596b6e7844af
/usr/lib/libbd_swap.so.2
/usr/lib/libbd_swap.so.2.0.0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev-swap
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.