How To Install gc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gc on CentOS 8.
What is gc
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new. gc 7.6.4 3.el8 x86_64 109 k gc-7.6.4-3.el8.src.rpm appstream A garbage collector for C and C++ http BSD The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new.
We can use yum or dnf to install gc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gc.
Install gc 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 gc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gc
Install gc 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 gc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gc
How To Uninstall gc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gc
gc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/e6da8d95af63b323838978f5d55a4e6cccb83d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/7a4c287eecc1c62ab363e06d21be046b348df0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/1c67aa57af20ce09c989aac732ace054b48232
/usr/lib64/libcord.so.1
/usr/lib64/libcord.so.1.3.0
/usr/lib64/libgc.so.1
/usr/lib64/libgc.so.1.3.2
/usr/lib64/libgccpp.so.1
/usr/lib64/libgccpp.so.1.3.1
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/e5d045bb392e8f70e22d214dd8e60099ef4060
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/a35d2d800f1d52f153fa39d819cb3211077e78
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/b1c89daa931906aef86281175e14701d48cc05
/usr/lib/libcord.so.1
/usr/lib/libcord.so.1.3.0
/usr/lib/libgc.so.1
/usr/lib/libgc.so.1.3.2
/usr/lib/libgccpp.so.1
/usr/lib/libgccpp.so.1.3.1
References
- [gc website](http://www.hboehm.info/gc/ http://www.hboehm.info/gc/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.