How To Install erlang-sasl on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-sasl on CentOS 8.
What is erlang-sasl
The System Architecture Support Libraries is a set of tools for release upgrades and alarm handling etc.
We can use yum or dnf to install erlang-sasl on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install erlang-sasl.
Install erlang-sasl 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 erlang-sasl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install erlang-sasl
Install erlang-sasl 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 erlang-sasl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install erlang-sasl
How To Uninstall erlang-sasl on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the erlang-sasl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove erlang-sasl
erlang-sasl Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/alarm_handler.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/erlsrv.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/format_lib_supp.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/misc_supp.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/rb.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/rb_format_supp.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/release_handler.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/release_handler_1.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/sasl.app
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/sasl.appup
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/sasl.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/sasl_report.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/sasl_report_file_h.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/sasl_report_tty_h.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/systools.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/systools_lib.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/systools_make.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/systools_rc.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/ebin/systools_relup.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/src
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/sasl-3.4/src/systools.hrl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-sasl on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.