How To Install erlang-sasl on CentOS 8

erlang-sasl is The System Architecture Support Libraries

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.