How To Install zeromq on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install zeromq on Rocky Linux 8. zeromq is Software library for fast, message-based applications

Introduction

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

What is zeromq

The 0MQ lightweight messaging kernel is a library which extends the standard socket interfaces with features traditionally provided by specialized messaging middle-ware products. 0MQ sockets provide an abstraction of asynchronous message queues, multiple messaging patterns, message filtering (subscriptions), seamless access to multiple transport protocols and more. This package contains the ZeroMQ shared library.

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

Install zeromq 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 zeromq using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zeromq

Install zeromq 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 zeromq using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zeromq

How To Uninstall zeromq on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove zeromq

zeromq Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/curve_keygen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/b6ab7882c0fc1b270a4e238523b5502dc9d8eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/a023fd4162566308f723e71ce94a4dec4efc27
/usr/lib64/libzmq.so.5
/usr/lib64/libzmq.so.5.2.4
/usr/share/doc/zeromq
/usr/share/doc/zeromq/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/zeromq/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/zeromq/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/zeromq
/usr/share/licenses/zeromq/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/zeromq/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_atomic_counter_dec.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_atomic_counter_destroy.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_atomic_counter_inc.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_atomic_counter_new.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_atomic_counter_set.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_atomic_counter_value.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_bind.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_close.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_connect.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_connect_peer.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_ctx_get.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_ctx_new.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_ctx_set.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_ctx_shutdown.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_ctx_term.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_curve_keypair.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_curve_public.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_disconnect.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_errno.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_getsockopt.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_has.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_close.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_copy.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_data.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_get.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_gets.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_init.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_init_buffer.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_init_data.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_init_size.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_more.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_move.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_recv.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_routing_id.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_send.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_set.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_set_routing_id.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_msg_size.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_poll.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_poller.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_proxy.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_proxy_steerable.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_recv.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_recvmsg.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_send.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_send_const.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_sendmsg.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_setsockopt.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_socket.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_socket_monitor.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_socket_monitor_versioned.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_strerror.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_timers.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_unbind.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_version.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_z85_decode.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/zmq_z85_encode.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/zmq.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/zmq_curve.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/zmq_gssapi.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/zmq_inproc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/zmq_ipc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/zmq_null.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/zmq_pgm.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/zmq_plain.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/zmq_tcp.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/zmq_tipc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/zmq_udp.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/zmq_vmci.7.gz

References

Summary

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