How To Install libss on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libss on Rocky Linux 8. libss is Command line interface parsing library

Introduction

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

What is `libss`

This is libss, a command line interface parsing library, part of e2fsprogs. This package includes a tool that parses a command table to generate a simple command-line interface parser, the include files needed to compile and use it. It was originally inspired by the Multics SubSystem library.

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

Install libss 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 libss using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libss

Install libss 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 libss using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libss

How To Uninstall libss on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libss

libss Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/f87312881b7872b102b0b66b98e1d00facbe33
/usr/lib/libss.so.2
/usr/lib/libss.so.2.0
/usr/share/licenses/libss
/usr/share/licenses/libss/NOTICE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/10b95a8f6e0b1586b75021a925ba64172a1959
/usr/lib64/libss.so.2
/usr/lib64/libss.so.2.0
/usr/share/licenses/libss
/usr/share/licenses/libss/NOTICE

References

libss website

Summary

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