How To Install libwebsockets on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebsockets on Rocky Linux 8. libwebsockets is A lightweight C library for Websockets

Introduction

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

What is libwebsockets

This is the libwebsockets C library for lightweight websocket clients and servers.

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

Install libwebsockets 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 libwebsockets using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libwebsockets

Install libwebsockets 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 libwebsockets using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libwebsockets

How To Uninstall libwebsockets on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libwebsockets

libwebsockets Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/2a610113455a3a93030d48a28ee4a12611fe73
/usr/lib64/libwebsockets.so.16
/usr/share/doc/libwebsockets
/usr/share/doc/libwebsockets/README.md
/usr/share/doc/libwebsockets/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/libwebsockets
/usr/share/licenses/libwebsockets/LICENSE

References

Summary

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