How To Install nant on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nant on Rocky Linux 8. nant is NAnt is a build tool for Mono and .NET

Introduction

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

What is nant

NAnt is a free .NET build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make’s wrinkles. In practice it’s a lot like Ant.

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

Install nant 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 nant using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nant

Install nant 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 nant using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nant

How To Uninstall nant on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove nant

nant Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/nant
/usr/lib/NAnt
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.CompressionTasks.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.CompressionTasks.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.CompressionTasks.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.Core.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.Core.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.Core.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.DotNetTasks.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.DotNetTasks.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.DotNetTasks.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.NUnit.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.NUnit.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.NUnit.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.NUnit2Tasks.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.NUnit2Tasks.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.NUnit2Tasks.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.VSNetTasks.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.VSNetTasks.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.VSNetTasks.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.VisualCppTasks.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.VisualCppTasks.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.VisualCppTasks.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.Win32Tasks.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.Win32Tasks.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.Win32Tasks.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.exe
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.exe.config
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.exe.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.xml
/usr/share/doc/nant
/usr/share/doc/nant/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/nant/license.html
/usr/share/doc/nant/releasenotes.html
/usr/share/licenses/nant
/usr/share/licenses/nant/COPYING.txt

References

Summary

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