How To Install multilib-rpm-config on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install multilib-rpm-config on Rocky Linux 8. multilib-rpm-config is Multilib packaging helpers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install multilib-rpm-config on Rocky Linux 8.

What is multilib-rpm-config

Set of tools (shell scripts, RPM macro files) to help with multilib packaging issues.

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

Install multilib-rpm-config 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 multilib-rpm-config using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install multilib-rpm-config

Install multilib-rpm-config 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 multilib-rpm-config using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install multilib-rpm-config

How To Uninstall multilib-rpm-config on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the multilib-rpm-config package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove multilib-rpm-config

multilib-rpm-config Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.multilib
/usr/libexec/multilib-fix
/usr/libexec/multilib-info
/usr/share/doc/multilib-rpm-config
/usr/share/doc/multilib-rpm-config/README
/usr/share/licenses/multilib-rpm-config
/usr/share/licenses/multilib-rpm-config/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install multilib-rpm-config on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.