How To Install libre on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libre on Rocky Linux 8. libre is Library for real-time communications and SIP stack

Introduction

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

What is libre

Libre is a portable and generic library for real-time communications with async IO support and a complete SIP stack with support for SDP, RTP/RTCP, STUN/TURN/ICE, BFCP and DNS client.

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

Install libre 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 libre using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libre

Install libre 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 libre using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libre

How To Uninstall libre on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libre

libre Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/43fb8f77319670fb49a63935210ec001af0d71
/usr/lib64/libre.so.1
/usr/lib64/libre.so.1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libre
/usr/share/doc/libre/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/libre
/usr/share/licenses/libre/COPYING

References

Summary

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