How To Install boost-atomic on CentOS 8

boost-atomic is Run-time component of boost atomic library Run-time component of boost atomic library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-atomic on CentOS 8.

What is boost-atomic

Run-time support for Boost.Atomic, a library that provides atomic data types and operations on these data types, as well as memory ordering constraints required for coordinating multiple threads through atomic variables. boost-atomic 1.66.0 10.el8 x86_64 14 k boost-1.66.0-10.el8.src.rpm appstream Run-time component of boost atomic library http Boost and MIT and Python Run-time support for Boost.Atomic, a library that provides atomic data types and operations on these data types, as well as memory ordering constraints required for coordinating multiple threads through atomic variables.

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

Install boost-atomic 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 boost-atomic using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install boost-atomic

Install boost-atomic 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 boost-atomic using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install boost-atomic

How To Uninstall boost-atomic on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the boost-atomic package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove boost-atomic

boost-atomic Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/b5c3dd23157c81dcf1e8ac2a3cd6175a84604e
/usr/lib/libboost_atomic.so.1.66.0
/usr/share/licenses/boost-atomic
/usr/share/licenses/boost-atomic/LICENSE_1_0.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/538ac93ce304de1faddbadae5e13dff2fd648f
/usr/lib64/libboost_atomic.so.1.66.0
/usr/share/licenses/boost-atomic
/usr/share/licenses/boost-atomic/LICENSE_1_0.txt

References

Summary

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