How To Install pcre on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre on Rocky Linux 8. pcre is Perl-compatible regular expression library

Introduction

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

What is `pcre`

PCRE, Perl-compatible regular expression, library has its own native API, but a set of wrapper functions that are based on the POSIX API are also supplied in the libpcreposix library. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE and semantics. This package provides support for strings in 8-bit and UTF-8 encodings. Detailed change log is provided by pcre-doc package.

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

Install pcre 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 pcre using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pcre

Install pcre 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 pcre using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcre

How To Uninstall pcre on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove pcre

pcre Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/c65d05285084f06d99385a06c99b90bb088d7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/7dc5f7eaac4baafa9f20849f921b935e0a285d
/usr/lib/libpcre.so.1
/usr/lib/libpcre.so.1.2.10
/usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.0
/usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.0.0.6
/usr/share/doc/pcre
/usr/share/doc/pcre/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pcre/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/pcre
/usr/share/licenses/pcre/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/pcre/LICENCE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/12ab5e0281dd7c79d8a2e045891885e0a6f43b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/a1b7615d337f0199ce8eb41090c2b3efc99eeb
/usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpcre.so.1.2.10
/usr/lib64/libpcreposix.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpcreposix.so.0.0.6
/usr/share/doc/pcre
/usr/share/doc/pcre/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pcre/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/pcre
/usr/share/licenses/pcre/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/pcre/LICENCE

References

pcre website

Summary

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