How To Install chan on CentOS 8

chan is Pure C implementation of Go channels Pure C implementation of Go channels

Introduction

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

What is `chan`

Pure C implementation of Go channels. Unbuffered, buffered and closing channels are available. chan 0.0.4 3.el8 x86_64 21 k chan-0.0.4-3.el8.src.rpm appstream Pure C implementation of Go channels https ASL 2.0 Pure C implementation of Go channels. Unbuffered, buffered and closing channels are available.

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

Install chan 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 chan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install chan

Install chan 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 chan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install chan

How To Uninstall chan on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove chan

chan Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/22914562eac29329329dad5816a232f6104d42
/usr/lib/libchan.so.0
/usr/lib/libchan.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/chan
/usr/share/doc/chan/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/chan
/usr/share/licenses/chan/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/b7b676b9a1fe2bfb3a5ad9b9b6928a3edb3306
/usr/lib64/libchan.so.0
/usr/lib64/libchan.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/chan
/usr/share/doc/chan/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/chan
/usr/share/licenses/chan/LICENSE

References

[chan website](https://github.com/tylertreat/chan https://github.com/tylertreat/chan)

Summary

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