How To Install libutempter on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libutempter on CentOS 8.
What is libutempter
This library provides interface for terminal emulators such as screen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files. libutempter 1.1.6 14.el8 i686 32 k libutempter-1.1.6-14.el8.src.rpm baseos A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp updates ftp LGPLv2+ This library provides interface for terminal emulators such as screen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files.
We can use yum or dnf to install libutempter on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libutempter.
Install libutempter 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 libutempter using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libutempter
Install libutempter 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 libutempter using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libutempter
How To Uninstall libutempter on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the libutempter package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libutempter
libutempter Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/9d01d036b36ab49aa23450dba3d5ea44967026
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/d2f5195167325934805bf52d8f702412239100
/usr/lib64/libutempter.so.0
/usr/lib64/libutempter.so.1.1.6
/usr/libexec/utempter
/usr/libexec/utempter/utempter
/usr/share/doc/libutempter
/usr/share/doc/libutempter/README
/usr/share/licenses/libutempter
/usr/share/licenses/libutempter/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/49c9576c8e37011c68eb5fc8780bd209e430b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/5077b4b4aae67ac945d02072cda01f2ef5f5cb
/usr/lib/libutempter.so.0
/usr/lib/libutempter.so.1.1.6
/usr/libexec/utempter
/usr/libexec/utempter/utempter
/usr/share/doc/libutempter
/usr/share/doc/libutempter/README
/usr/share/licenses/libutempter
/usr/share/licenses/libutempter/COPYING
References
- [libutempter website](ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/ldv/utempter ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/ldv/utempter)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libutempter on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
