How To Install libcephfs2 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcephfs2 on Rocky Linux 8. libcephfs2 is Ceph distributed file system client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcephfs2 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libcephfs2

Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. This is a shared library allowing applications to access a Ceph distributed file system via a POSIX-like interface.

We can use yum or dnf to install libcephfs2 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libcephfs2.

Install libcephfs2 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 libcephfs2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcephfs2

Install libcephfs2 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 libcephfs2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcephfs2

How To Uninstall libcephfs2 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libcephfs2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libcephfs2

libcephfs2 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/795d686a258890d043b7bea5c271e6015ae196
/usr/lib64/libcephfs.so.2
/usr/lib64/libcephfs.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/92aa4c1be3992aea00541fb7cb9b7f5c77731b
/usr/lib/libcephfs.so.2
/usr/lib/libcephfs.so.2.0.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcephfs2 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.