How To Install mingw64-expat on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-expat
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is mingw64-expat
This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may register handlers.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install mingw64-expat
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw64-expat.
Install mingw64-expat 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 mingw64-expat
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mingw64-expat
Install mingw64-expat 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 mingw64-expat
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mingw64-expat
How To Uninstall mingw64-expat on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the mingw64-expat
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mingw64-expat
mingw64-expat Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/share/licenses/mingw64-expat
/usr/share/licenses/mingw64-expat/COPYING
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libexpat-1.dll
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/xmlwf.exe
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/expat.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/expat_config.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/expat_external.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libexpat.dll.a
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/expat.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-expat
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.