How To Install libitm on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libitm on Rocky Linux 8. libitm is The GNU Transactional Memory library

Introduction

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

What is `libitm`

This package contains the GNU Transactional Memory library which is a GCC transactional memory support runtime library.

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

Install libitm 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 libitm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libitm

Install libitm 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 libitm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libitm

How To Uninstall libitm on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libitm

libitm Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/fb3804f798e1f0c59605af32df1e560fb08117
/usr/lib/libitm.so.1
/usr/lib/libitm.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/info/libitm.info.gz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/fdf6e66c7a85fcfac62053f393d92c9b5f0155
/usr/lib64/libitm.so.1
/usr/lib64/libitm.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/info/libitm.info.gz

References

libitm website

Summary

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