How To Install nghttp2 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nghttp2 on CentOS 8.
What is nghttp2
This package contains the HTTP/2 client, server and proxy programs.
We can use yum or dnf to install nghttp2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nghttp2.
Install nghttp2 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 nghttp2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nghttp2
Install nghttp2 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 nghttp2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nghttp2
How To Uninstall nghttp2 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the nghttp2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nghttp2
nghttp2 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/h2load
/usr/bin/nghttp
/usr/bin/nghttpd
/usr/bin/nghttpx
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/3a0475e41edf9de7ea1d026991432bcbdd94cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/25699556f4f310e365934e5b4196ec702b0388
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/fd88bd45bdeaa71abc37815ef9c746bc3c3ed8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/d9ddd857c9b1d67e055e84d60087fdfe46097d
/usr/lib/systemd/system/nghttpx.service
/usr/share/man/man1/h2load.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nghttp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nghttpd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nghttpx.1.gz
/usr/share/nghttp2
/usr/share/nghttp2/fetch-ocsp-response
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nghttp2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.