How To Install neon on CentOS 8

neon is An HTTP and WebDAV client library An HTTP and WebDAV client library

Introduction

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

What is neon

neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface; providing a high-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods along with a low-level interface for HTTP request handling. neon supports persistent connections, proxy servers, basic, digest and Kerberos authentication, and has complete SSL support. neon 0.30.2 6.el8 x86_64 134 k neon-0.30.2-6.el8.src.rpm appstream An HTTP and WebDAV client library http LGPLv2+ neon is an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface; providing a high-level interface to HTTP and WebDAV methods along with a low-level interface for HTTP request handling. neon supports persistent connections, proxy servers, basic, digest and Kerberos authentication, and has complete SSL support.

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

Install neon 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 neon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install neon

Install neon 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 neon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install neon

How To Uninstall neon on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove neon

neon Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/38b0dd58c16fcf3554372de01a0e130408fa33
/usr/lib/libneon.so.27
/usr/lib/libneon.so.27.3.2
/usr/share/doc/neon
/usr/share/doc/neon/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/neon/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/neon/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/neon/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/neon/README
/usr/share/doc/neon/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/neon/TODO
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/296cfdb34960076840c2e9d7fd93ba635472e0
/usr/lib64/libneon.so.27
/usr/lib64/libneon.so.27.3.2
/usr/share/doc/neon
/usr/share/doc/neon/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/neon/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/neon/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/neon/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/neon/README
/usr/share/doc/neon/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/neon/TODO
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/neon.mo

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Summary

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