How To Install canl-c on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install canl-c on CentOS 8.
What is canl-c
This is the C part of the EMI caNl – the Common Authentication Library.
We can use yum or dnf to install canl-c on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install canl-c.
Install canl-c 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 canl-c using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install canl-c
Install canl-c 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 canl-c using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install canl-c
How To Uninstall canl-c on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the canl-c package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove canl-c
canl-c Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/b2e09ecad366a7c9fd015fb7e152d321389536
/usr/lib64/libcanl_c.so.4
/usr/lib64/libcanl_c.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/canl-c
/usr/share/doc/canl-c/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/canl-c/README
/usr/share/licenses/canl-c
/usr/share/licenses/canl-c/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install canl-c on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.