How To Install pugixml on CentOS 8

pugixml is A light-weight C++ XML processing library

Introduction

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

What is `pugixml`

pugixml is a light-weight C++ XML processing library. It features - DOM-like interface with rich traversal/modification capabilities - Extremely fast non-validating XML parser which constructs the DOM tree from an XML file/buffer - XPath 1.0 implementation for complex data-driven tree queries - Full Unicode support with Unicode interface variants and automatic encoding conversions

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

Install pugixml 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 pugixml using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pugixml

Install pugixml 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 pugixml using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pugixml

How To Uninstall pugixml on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove pugixml

pugixml Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/a086773c7a6c6a8187f4e1a855eac190e2d64d
/usr/lib64/libpugixml.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpugixml.so.1.11
/usr/share/doc/pugixml
/usr/share/doc/pugixml/readme.txt
/usr/share/licenses/pugixml
/usr/share/licenses/pugixml/LICENSE.md

References

pugixml website

Summary

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