How To Install libxslt on CentOS 8

libxslt is Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine

Introduction

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

What is libxslt

This C library allows to transform XML files into other XML files (or HTML, text, …) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation mechanism. To use it you need to have a version of libxml2 >= 2.6.27 installed. The xsltproc command is a command line interface to the XSLT engine libxslt 1.1.32 6.el8 x86_64 250 k libxslt-1.1.32-6.el8.src.rpm baseos Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine http MIT This C library allows to transform XML files into other XML files (or HTML, text, …) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation mechanism. To use it you need to have a version of libxml2 >= 2.6.27 installed. The xsltproc command is a command line interface to the XSLT engine

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

Install libxslt 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 libxslt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libxslt

Install libxslt 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 libxslt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libxslt

How To Uninstall libxslt on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove libxslt

libxslt Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/xsltproc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/c9a01acfc9f81c80f27efb26bf0924149337e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/47f76b56671f668ffa2b4f52625e229c96a7ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/ed58bf042295c026616e6cc7b266e123716836
/usr/lib64/libexslt.so.0
/usr/lib64/libexslt.so.0.8.20
/usr/lib64/libxslt-plugins
/usr/lib64/libxslt.so.1
/usr/lib64/libxslt.so.1.1.32
/usr/share/doc/libxslt
/usr/share/doc/libxslt/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libxslt/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libxslt/FEATURES
/usr/share/doc/libxslt/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libxslt/README
/usr/share/licenses/libxslt
/usr/share/licenses/libxslt/Copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/xsltproc.1.gz
/usr/bin/xsltproc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/4a09d6f2ad1290da1e505b9cc0f5969998fa28
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/df431a157c0d04793e352fe2d4191d39859259
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/5bdf743f679123d6502237c80aded8f398965e
/usr/lib/libexslt.so.0
/usr/lib/libexslt.so.0.8.20
/usr/lib/libxslt-plugins
/usr/lib/libxslt.so.1
/usr/lib/libxslt.so.1.1.32
/usr/share/doc/libxslt
/usr/share/doc/libxslt/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libxslt/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libxslt/FEATURES
/usr/share/doc/libxslt/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libxslt/README
/usr/share/licenses/libxslt
/usr/share/licenses/libxslt/Copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/xsltproc.1.gz

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Summary

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