How To Install rc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rc on CentOS 8.
What is rc
Rc is a command interpreter for Plan 9 that provides similar facilities to UNIX’s Bourne shell, with some small additions and less idiosyncratic syntax. This is a re-implementation for Unix, by Byron Rakitzis, of the Plan 9 shell.
We can use yum or dnf to install rc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rc.
Install rc 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 rc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rc
Install rc 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 rc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rc
How To Uninstall rc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rc
rc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/rc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/7b08b8512d19892fbebd9434957349c071df2b
/usr/share/doc/rc
/usr/share/doc/rc/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rc/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rc/EXAMPLES
/usr/share/doc/rc/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rc/README
/usr/share/licenses/rc
/usr/share/licenses/rc/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/rc.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.