How To Install lua-unbound on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-unbound on Rocky Linux 8. lua-unbound is Binding to libunbound for Lua

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-unbound on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `lua-unbound`

Lua bindings for the Unbound APIs.

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

Install lua-unbound 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 lua-unbound using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lua-unbound

Install lua-unbound 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 lua-unbound using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lua-unbound

How To Uninstall lua-unbound on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the lua-unbound package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lua-unbound

lua-unbound Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/561efc4180381658d98609d273d4b280231ba3
/usr/lib64/lua/5.3/lunbound.so
/usr/share/doc/lua-unbound
/usr/share/doc/lua-unbound/README.markdown
/usr/share/licenses/lua-unbound
/usr/share/licenses/lua-unbound/LICENSE

References

lua-unbound website

Summary

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