How To Install fakeroot-libs on CentOS 8

fakeroot-libs is Gives a fake root environment (libraries)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fakeroot-libs on CentOS 8.

What is fakeroot-libs

This package contains the libraries required by fakeroot.

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

Install fakeroot-libs 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 fakeroot-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fakeroot-libs

Install fakeroot-libs 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 fakeroot-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fakeroot-libs

How To Uninstall fakeroot-libs on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fakeroot-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fakeroot-libs

fakeroot-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/f8e248ad588ff4d33c983e77008ea96390b802
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/29f5c11ddf187e994b5133813a6ee5188d0fc9
/usr/lib64/libfakeroot
/usr/lib64/libfakeroot/libfakeroot-0.so
/usr/lib64/libfakeroot/libfakeroot-sysv.so
/usr/lib64/libfakeroot/libfakeroot-tcp.so

References

Summary

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