How To Install libcap-ng-utils on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcap-ng-utils on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libcap-ng-utils
The libcap-ng-utils package contains applications to analyze the posix capabilities of all the program running on a system. It also lets you set the file system based capabilities.
We can use yum or dnf to install libcap-ng-utils on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libcap-ng-utils.
Install libcap-ng-utils 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 libcap-ng-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libcap-ng-utils
Install libcap-ng-utils 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 libcap-ng-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libcap-ng-utils
How To Uninstall libcap-ng-utils on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libcap-ng-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libcap-ng-utils
libcap-ng-utils Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/captest
/usr/bin/filecap
/usr/bin/netcap
/usr/bin/pscap
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/eccf98453256e201eeeec30fe4ec99e2e434b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/03f8a067636636921e00ccee9a4458c610c549
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/83f94623be90528a605a8c0cfb71272fb43fae
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/9bbaa6f9f33a19dbe2d47de9eaa30529678632
/usr/share/licenses/libcap-ng-utils
/usr/share/licenses/libcap-ng-utils/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/captest.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/filecap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/netcap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/pscap.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcap-ng-utils on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
