How To Install nspr on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nspr on CentOS 8.
What is nspr
NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking. nspr 4.25.0 2.el8_2 x86_64 142 k nspr-4.25.0-2.el8_2.src.rpm appstream Netscape Portable Runtime http MPLv2.0 NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking.
We can use yum or dnf to install nspr on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nspr.
Install nspr 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 nspr using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nspr
Install nspr 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 nspr using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nspr
How To Uninstall nspr on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the nspr package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nspr
nspr Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/81ebd6b8dd40be99b620afd0defc06e83c708e
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/911a6b1165c491791061e53eb38940b37d4793
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/fdc5db994babf373a3b9164a6f7a2f225fb52b
/usr/lib/libnspr4.so
/usr/lib/libplc4.so
/usr/lib/libplds4.so
/usr/share/licenses/nspr
/usr/share/licenses/nspr/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/1995f32d0b71f341a9b38da69e868d5982b5ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/2a6ac35d6a72b21ca13baf2ea5e4b0c01d0e57
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/a1f9d2cf7f25ecd30b481bab487c000d1241a0
/usr/lib64/libnspr4.so
/usr/lib64/libplc4.so
/usr/lib64/libplds4.so
/usr/share/licenses/nspr
/usr/share/licenses/nspr/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nspr on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.