How To Install msgpack on CentOS 8

msgpack is Binary-based efficient object serialization library

Introduction

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

What is msgpack

MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small.

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

Install msgpack 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 msgpack using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install msgpack

Install msgpack 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 msgpack using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install msgpack

How To Uninstall msgpack on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove msgpack

msgpack Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/bf1eef7304b1c739c84f469466a156b36ea6fa
/usr/lib64/libmsgpackc.so.2
/usr/lib64/libmsgpackc.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/msgpack
/usr/share/doc/msgpack/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/msgpack/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/msgpack/NOTICE
/usr/share/doc/msgpack/README
/usr/share/doc/msgpack/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/msgpack
/usr/share/licenses/msgpack/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/msgpack/LICENSE_1_0.txt

References

Summary

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