How To Install libscrypt on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libscrypt
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libscrypt
This is a library that implements the secure password hashing function “scrypt”.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libscrypt
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libscrypt.
Install libscrypt 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 libscrypt
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libscrypt
Install libscrypt 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 libscrypt
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libscrypt
How To Uninstall libscrypt on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libscrypt
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libscrypt
libscrypt Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/c6a257e3607cdbe9b8bb493d77600a913b6417
/usr/lib64/libscrypt.so.0
/usr/share/doc/libscrypt
/usr/share/doc/libscrypt/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libscrypt
/usr/share/licenses/libscrypt/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libscrypt
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.