How To Install libnbd on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnbd on Rocky Linux 8. libnbd is NBD client library in userspace

Introduction

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

What is libnbd

NBD — Network Block Device — is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network. This is the NBD client library in userspace, a simple library for writing NBD clients. The key features are * Synchronous and asynchronous APIs, both for ease of use and for writing non-blocking, multithreaded clients. * High performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic library. * Well-documented, stable API. * Bindings in several programming languages.

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

Install libnbd 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 libnbd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libnbd

Install libnbd 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 libnbd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libnbd

How To Uninstall libnbd on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libnbd

libnbd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/43c2919ced5745c62cd6117bd52bc0c68da96f
/usr/lib64/libnbd.so.0
/usr/lib64/libnbd.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libnbd
/usr/share/doc/libnbd/README
/usr/share/licenses/libnbd
/usr/share/licenses/libnbd/COPYING.LIB

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Summary

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