How To Install libguess on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libguess on Rocky Linux 8. libguess is High-speed character set detection library

Introduction

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

What is libguess

libguess employs discrete-finite automata to deduce the character set of the input buffer. The advantage of this is that all character sets can be checked in parallel, and quickly. Right now, libguess passes a byte to each DFA on the same pass, meaning that the winning character set can be deduced as efficiently as possible. libguess is fully reentrant, using only local stack memory for DFA operations.

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

Install libguess 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 libguess using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libguess

Install libguess 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 libguess using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libguess

How To Uninstall libguess on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libguess

libguess Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/7ac909b7d24af2566079caaa69b73f51668f90
/usr/lib64/libguess.so.1
/usr/lib64/libguess.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libguess
/usr/share/doc/libguess/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libguess/README

References

Summary

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