How To Install libgit2-glib on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgit2-glib on Rocky Linux 8. libgit2-glib is Git library for GLib

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgit2-glib on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libgit2-glib

libgit2-glib is a glib wrapper library around the libgit2 git access library.

We can use yum or dnf to install libgit2-glib on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libgit2-glib.

Install libgit2-glib 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 libgit2-glib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libgit2-glib

Install libgit2-glib 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 libgit2-glib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgit2-glib

How To Uninstall libgit2-glib on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libgit2-glib package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libgit2-glib

libgit2-glib Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/68e7e9b533434e69c70dc8dde800205a208174
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/Ggit.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__/Ggit.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__/Ggit.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Ggit-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgit2-glib-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgit2-glib-1.0.so.0.2600.4
/usr/share/doc/libgit2-glib
/usr/share/doc/libgit2-glib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgit2-glib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libgit2-glib/README.rhel8
/usr/share/licenses/libgit2-glib
/usr/share/licenses/libgit2-glib/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/fff81f62165cc2d0e0dbab24db589b7bfeb680
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Ggit-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgit2-glib-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgit2-glib-1.0.so.0.2600.4
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/Ggit.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__/Ggit.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gi/overrides/__pycache__/Ggit.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/share/doc/libgit2-glib
/usr/share/doc/libgit2-glib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgit2-glib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libgit2-glib/README.rhel8
/usr/share/licenses/libgit2-glib
/usr/share/licenses/libgit2-glib/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgit2-glib on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.