How To Install libguac on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguac on Rocky Linux 8. libguac is The common library used by all C components of Guacamole

Introduction

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

What is libguac

libguac is the core library for guacd (the Guacamole proxy) and any protocol support plugins for guacd. libguac provides efficient buffered I/O of text and base64 data, as well as somewhat abstracted functions for sending Guacamole instructions.

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

Install libguac 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 libguac using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libguac

Install libguac 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 libguac using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libguac

How To Uninstall libguac on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libguac

libguac Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/7dfe85068c0c86158245d6448e34c7f6ccafd0
/usr/lib64/libguac.so.19
/usr/lib64/libguac.so.19.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libguac
/usr/share/doc/libguac/CONTRIBUTING
/usr/share/doc/libguac/README
/usr/share/licenses/libguac
/usr/share/licenses/libguac/LICENSE

References

Summary

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