How To Install cjson on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cjson on CentOS 8.
What is cjson
cJSON aims to be the dumbest possible parser that you can get your job done with. It’s a single file of C, and a single header file.
We can use yum or dnf to install cjson on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cjson.
Install cjson 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 cjson using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cjson
Install cjson 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 cjson using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cjson
How To Uninstall cjson on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cjson package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cjson
cjson Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/e61d4b218a1b576adf7381fbddb5c2efdf73db
/usr/lib64/libcjson.so.1
/usr/lib64/libcjson.so.1.7.14
/usr/share/doc/cjson
/usr/share/doc/cjson/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cjson
/usr/share/licenses/cjson/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cjson on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.