How To Install neon on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install neon on Rocky Linux 8. neon is An HTTP and WebDAV client library

Introduction

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

What is neon

neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface; providing a high-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods along with a low-level interface for HTTP request handling. neon supports persistent connections, proxy servers, basic, digest and Kerberos authentication, and has complete SSL support.

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

Install neon 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 neon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install neon

Install neon 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 neon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install neon

How To Uninstall neon on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove neon

neon Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/30dd940675fc1be38297e7217bc95acea8883d
/usr/lib64/libneon.so.27
/usr/lib64/libneon.so.27.3.2
/usr/share/doc/neon
/usr/share/doc/neon/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/neon/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/neon/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/neon/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/neon/README
/usr/share/doc/neon/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/neon/TODO
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/a9dcaa84b0890711cbd6d69ae683609a510fbd
/usr/lib/libneon.so.27
/usr/lib/libneon.so.27.3.2
/usr/share/doc/neon
/usr/share/doc/neon/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/neon/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/neon/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/neon/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/neon/README
/usr/share/doc/neon/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/neon/TODO
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo

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Summary

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