How To Install spdlog on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install spdlog on Rocky Linux 8. spdlog is Super fast C++ logging library

Introduction

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

What is spdlog

This is a packaged version of the gabime/spdlog C++ logging library available at Github.

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

Install spdlog 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 spdlog using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spdlog

Install spdlog 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 spdlog using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spdlog

How To Uninstall spdlog on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove spdlog

spdlog Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/d326727387dddd97085ac7e1025c84561b89dc
/usr/lib64/libspdlog.so.1
/usr/lib64/libspdlog.so.1.5.0
/usr/share/doc/spdlog
/usr/share/doc/spdlog/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/spdlog
/usr/share/licenses/spdlog/LICENSE

References

Summary

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