How To Install ctpl on CentOS 8

ctpl is Template library and engine written in C

Introduction

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

What is ctpl

CTPL is a template library written in C. It allows fast and easy parsing of templates from many sources (including in-memory data and local and remote streaming, thanks to GIO) and fine control over template parsing environment. CTPL has following features * It is a library, then it can be easily used from programs * Separated lexer and parser * It is written in portable C * Simple syntax * Fast and strict parsing * Possible in-memory parsing, allowing non-file data parsing and avoiding I/O-latency, through GIO’s GMemoryInputStream and GMemoryOutputStream

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

Install ctpl 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 ctpl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ctpl

Install ctpl 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 ctpl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ctpl

How To Uninstall ctpl on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove ctpl

ctpl Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/ctpl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/6950eede9e7f7ed691dd53a0d19178842689c6
/usr/share/man/man1/ctpl.1.gz

References

Summary

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