How To Install airrac on CentOS 8

airrac is C++ Simulated Revenue Accounting (RAC) System Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install airrac on CentOS 8.

What is airrac

airrac is a C++ library of airline revenue accounting classes and functions, mainly targeting simulation purposes. airrac makes an extensive use of existing open-source libraries for increased functionality, speed and accuracy. In particular the Boost (C++ Standard Extensions Install the airrac package if you need a library of basic C++ objects for Airline Revenue Accounting, mainly for simulation purpose.

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

Install airrac on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install airrac using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install airrac

Install airrac on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install airrac using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install airrac

How To Uninstall airrac on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove airrac

airrac Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/airrac
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/958a234158b7ba072764fd7c68b604c2cd1808
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/7fe9d6f3c7de49e35b895a7a46466ff27ed160
/usr/lib64/libairrac.so.1.00
/usr/lib64/libairrac.so.1.00.3
/usr/share/doc/airrac
/usr/share/doc/airrac/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/airrac/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/airrac/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/airrac/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/airrac/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/airrac.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install airrac on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.