How To Install lua-expat on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-expat on CentOS 8.
What is lua-expat
LuaExpat is a SAX XML parser based on the Expat library.
We can use yum or dnf to install lua-expat on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lua-expat.
Install lua-expat 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 lua-expat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lua-expat
Install lua-expat 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 lua-expat using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lua-expat
How To Uninstall lua-expat on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the lua-expat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lua-expat
lua-expat Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/2f538ff63519fc354b34164ad431aa49ec229b
/usr/lib64/lua/5.3/lxp.so
/usr/share/doc/lua-expat
/usr/share/doc/lua-expat/README
/usr/share/doc/lua-expat/examples.html
/usr/share/doc/lua-expat/index.html
/usr/share/doc/lua-expat/license.html
/usr/share/doc/lua-expat/lom.html
/usr/share/doc/lua-expat/luaexpat.png
/usr/share/doc/lua-expat/manual.html
/usr/share/lua/5.3/lxp
/usr/share/lua/5.3/lxp/lom.lua
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-expat on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.