How To Install libmnl on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmnl on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libmnl
libmnl is a minimalistic user-space library oriented to Netlink developers. There are a lot of common tasks in parsing, validating, constructing of both the Netlink header and TLVs that are repetitive and easy to get wrong. This library aims to provide simple helpers that allows you to re-use code and to avoid re-inventing the wheel.
We can use yum or dnf to install libmnl on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libmnl.
Install libmnl 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 libmnl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libmnl
Install libmnl 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 libmnl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libmnl
How To Uninstall libmnl on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libmnl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libmnl
libmnl Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/0708e8d5b82053becb0081b0098c9d198a49b1
/usr/lib/libmnl.so.0
/usr/lib/libmnl.so.0.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libmnl
/usr/share/doc/libmnl/README
/usr/share/licenses/libmnl
/usr/share/licenses/libmnl/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/9d195c997315c51800f10c386233bf2f45d00f
/usr/lib64/libmnl.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmnl.so.0.2.0
/usr/share/doc/libmnl
/usr/share/doc/libmnl/README
/usr/share/licenses/libmnl
/usr/share/licenses/libmnl/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmnl on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
