How To Install liburing on CentOS 8

liburing is Linux-native io_uring I/O access library Linux-native io_uring I/O access library

Introduction

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

What is liburing

Provides native async IO for the Linux kernel, in a fast and efficient manner, for both buffered and O_DIRECT. liburing 1.0.7 3.el8 x86_64 24 k liburing-1.0.7-3.el8.src.rpm appstream Linux-native io_uring I/O access library http LGPLv2+ Provides native async IO for the Linux kernel, in a fast and efficient manner, for both buffered and O_DIRECT.

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

Install liburing 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 liburing using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install liburing

Install liburing 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 liburing using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liburing

How To Uninstall liburing on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove liburing

liburing Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/c1b164828b4408dfa3b616a3350c28d597a379
/usr/lib/liburing.so.1
/usr/lib/liburing.so.1.0.7
/usr/share/doc/liburing
/usr/share/doc/liburing/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/f07933e9a16bb47a9f52480acb280698f61b0d
/usr/lib64/liburing.so.1
/usr/lib64/liburing.so.1.0.7
/usr/share/doc/liburing
/usr/share/doc/liburing/COPYING

References

Summary

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