How To Install xapian-bindings on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install xapian-bindings on Rocky Linux 8. xapian-bindings is Bindings for the Xapian Probabilistic Information Retrieval Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xapian-bindings on Rocky Linux 8.

What is xapian-bindings

Xapian is an Open Source Probabilistic Information Retrieval Library. It offers a highly adaptable toolkit that allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to applications. This package provides the files needed for scripts which use Xapian.

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

Install xapian-bindings 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 xapian-bindings using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xapian-bindings

Install xapian-bindings 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 xapian-bindings using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xapian-bindings

How To Uninstall xapian-bindings on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the xapian-bindings package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove xapian-bindings

xapian-bindings Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/xapian-bindings
/usr/share/doc/xapian-bindings/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xapian-bindings/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xapian-bindings/README
/usr/share/licenses/xapian-bindings
/usr/share/licenses/xapian-bindings/COPYING

References

Summary

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