How To Install calc-libs on CentOS 8

calc-libs is Libraries for the calc arithmetic system

Introduction

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

What is calc-libs

Shared libraries used by the calc command line calculator and other programs using its arbitrary precision arithmetic routines.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install calc-libs

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

sudo yum -y install calc-libs

How To Uninstall calc-libs on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove calc-libs

calc-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/a6be5a81ef6c5d66ab5f49feac74483139106c
/usr/lib64/libcalc.so.2.12.7.2
/usr/share/doc/calc-libs
/usr/share/doc/calc-libs/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/calc-libs/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/calc-libs
/usr/share/licenses/calc-libs/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/calc-libs/COPYING-GPL

References

Summary

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