How To Install audit-libs on CentOS 8

audit-libs is Dynamic library for libaudit Dynamic library for libaudit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install audit-libs on CentOS 8.

What is audit-libs

The audit-libs package contains the dynamic libraries needed for applications to use the audit framework. audit-libs 3.0 0.17.20191104git1c2f876.el8 i686 121 k audit-3.0-0.17.20191104git1c2f876.el8.src.rpm baseos Dynamic library for libaudit http LGPLv2+ The audit-libs package contains the dynamic libraries needed for applications to use the audit framework.

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

Install audit-libs 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 audit-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install audit-libs

Install audit-libs 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 audit-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install audit-libs

How To Uninstall audit-libs on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the audit-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove audit-libs

audit-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/libaudit.conf
/lib/libaudit.so.1
/lib/libaudit.so.1.0.0
/lib/libauparse.so.0
/lib/libauparse.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/9bb105b093b071e5dd319e99050c4f66cb80f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/65
/usr/lib/.build-id/65/e7fa3fea972317aa6bd52c35034ec13a1672e8
/usr/share/licenses/audit-libs
/usr/share/licenses/audit-libs/lgpl-2.1.txt
/usr/share/man/man5/libaudit.conf.5.gz
/etc/libaudit.conf
/lib64/libaudit.so.1
/lib64/libaudit.so.1.0.0
/lib64/libauparse.so.0
/lib64/libauparse.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/24ac9e2f0ab806f46f0824a99d7b276881c52a
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/4c660a5b7a8ce9bd6ca2c05e3fbf801ea13e7a
/usr/share/licenses/audit-libs
/usr/share/licenses/audit-libs/lgpl-2.1.txt
/usr/share/man/man5/libaudit.conf.5.gz

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Summary

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