How To Install hiredis on CentOS 8

hiredis is Minimalistic C client library for Redis

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hiredis on CentOS 8.

What is hiredis

Hiredis is a minimalistic C client library for the Redis database.

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

Install hiredis 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 hiredis using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hiredis

Install hiredis 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 hiredis using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hiredis

How To Uninstall hiredis on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the hiredis package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove hiredis

hiredis Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/b6ca831795c6f4e06416ed32daa301d549ad69
/usr/lib64/libhiredis.so.0
/usr/lib64/libhiredis.so.0.13
/usr/share/doc/hiredis
/usr/share/doc/hiredis/COPYING

References

Summary

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