How To Install tre-common on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install tre-common on Rocky Linux 8. tre-common is Cross-platform files for use with the tre package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tre-common on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `tre-common`

This package contains platform-agnostic files used by the TRE library.

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

Install tre-common 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 tre-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tre-common

Install tre-common 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 tre-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tre-common

How To Uninstall tre-common on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the tre-common package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tre-common

tre-common Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/tre-common
/usr/share/doc/tre-common/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tre-common/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tre-common/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/tre-common/README
/usr/share/doc/tre-common/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/tre-common/TODO
/usr/share/doc/tre-common/default.css
/usr/share/doc/tre-common/tre-api.html
/usr/share/doc/tre-common/tre-syntax.html
/usr/share/licenses/tre-common
/usr/share/licenses/tre-common/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/tre.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/tre.mo

References

tre-common website

Summary

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