How To Install libcgroup-tools on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcgroup-tools on Rocky Linux 8. libcgroup-tools is Command-line utility programs, services and daemons for libcgroup

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcgroup-tools on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libcgroup-tools

This package contains command-line programs, services and a daemon for manipulating control groups using the libcgroup library.

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

Install libcgroup-tools 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 libcgroup-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcgroup-tools

Install libcgroup-tools 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 libcgroup-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcgroup-tools

How To Uninstall libcgroup-tools on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libcgroup-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libcgroup-tools

libcgroup-tools Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/cgconfig.conf
/etc/cgsnapshot_blacklist.conf
/usr/bin/cgclassify
/usr/bin/cgcreate
/usr/bin/cgdelete
/usr/bin/cgexec
/usr/bin/cgget
/usr/bin/cgset
/usr/bin/cgsnapshot
/usr/bin/lscgroup
/usr/bin/lssubsys
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/b50e151aaa3c724515799df914a9a3562e40b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/0daac6e85f914f7c0d8a09f990bfc3230fe172
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/d2e03601f78bb92cda2117b9379458dfa380ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/580abcf36df7c8dd09f6f7cc14bb734fa20b90
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/d6198cf6cf823773be4cb274e6eecfecef2eac
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/9c73b32b55af9a5ad8933dc7da8db372522123
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/ebf78f31281d6145cc5737fa3bbc8cd0f8841c
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/a7160336a9895395b13408ef29a6bc572b1ea2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/d1219aacf2c9c7bdfff64ebc2d7e449b5190c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/766cf4bdb12665c7cb5a29a141fd92cff3febd
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/e01a4ecd4a5a85a82cc9465d0af58e34d41cfa
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cgconfig.service
/usr/sbin/cgclear
/usr/sbin/cgconfigparser
/usr/share/doc/libcgroup-tools
/usr/share/doc/libcgroup-tools/README
/usr/share/doc/libcgroup-tools/README_systemd
/usr/share/licenses/libcgroup-tools
/usr/share/licenses/libcgroup-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cgclassify.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cgclear.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cgcreate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cgdelete.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cgexec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cgget.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cgset.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cgsnapshot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lscgroup.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lssubsys.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/cgconfig.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cgconfigparser.8.gz

References

Summary

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