How To Install lld on CentOS 8

lld is The LLVM Linker The LLVM Linker

Introduction

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

What is lld

The LLVM project linker. lld 11.0.0 3.module_el8.4.0+587+5187cac0 x86_64 27 k lld-11.0.0-3.module_el8.4.0+587+5187cac0.src.rpm appstream The LLVM Linker http NCSA The LLVM project linker.

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

Install lld 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 lld using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lld

Install lld 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 lld using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lld

How To Uninstall lld on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove lld

lld Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/ld.lld
/usr/bin/ld64.lld
/usr/bin/lld
/usr/bin/lld-link
/usr/bin/wasm-ld
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/4a33e35f46c9b3ba2e11d551e5a8d967aaf472
/usr/share/licenses/lld
/usr/share/licenses/lld/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/bin/ld.lld
/usr/bin/ld64.lld
/usr/bin/lld
/usr/bin/lld-link
/usr/bin/wasm-ld
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/723c5a5fc1ecb7ddcdc5374dc491f336716642
/usr/share/licenses/lld
/usr/share/licenses/lld/LICENSE.TXT

References

Summary

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