How To Install gperf on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gperf on CentOS 8.
What is gperf
Gperf is a perfect hash function generator written in C++. Simply stated, a perfect hash function is a hash function and a data structure that allows recognition of a key word in a set of words using exactly one probe into the data structure.
We can use yum or dnf to install gperf on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gperf.
Install gperf 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 gperf using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gperf
Install gperf 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 gperf using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gperf
How To Uninstall gperf on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gperf package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gperf
gperf Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/gperf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/599fd7b6cf645b01cfc0680feef49926b226f1
/usr/share/doc/gperf
/usr/share/doc/gperf/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gperf/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gperf/README
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf.pdf
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_1.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_10.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_2.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_3.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_4.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_5.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_6.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_7.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_8.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_9.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_toc.html
/usr/share/info/gperf.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gperf.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gperf on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.