How To Install rc on CentOS 8

rc is Re-implementation for Unix of the Plan 9 shell

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.