How To Install rubygem-curb on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-curb on CentOS 8.
What is rubygem-curb
Curb (probably CUrl-RuBy or something) provides Ruby-language bindings for the libcurl(3), a fully-featured client-side URL transfer library. cURL and libcurl live at http
We can use yum or dnf to install rubygem-curb on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rubygem-curb.
Install rubygem-curb 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 rubygem-curb using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rubygem-curb
Install rubygem-curb 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 rubygem-curb using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rubygem-curb
How To Uninstall rubygem-curb on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rubygem-curb package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rubygem-curb
rubygem-curb Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/61394dc20301e69abd6c929e28a09002969d75
/usr/lib64/gems/ruby/curb-0.9.10
/usr/lib64/gems/ruby/curb-0.9.10/curb_core.so
/usr/lib64/gems/ruby/curb-0.9.10/gem.build_complete
/usr/share/gems/gems/curb-0.9.10
/usr/share/gems/gems/curb-0.9.10/LICENSE
/usr/share/gems/gems/curb-0.9.10/lib
/usr/share/gems/gems/curb-0.9.10/lib/curb.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/curb-0.9.10/lib/curl
/usr/share/gems/gems/curb-0.9.10/lib/curl.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/curb-0.9.10/lib/curl/easy.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/curb-0.9.10/lib/curl/multi.rb
/usr/share/gems/specifications/curb-0.9.10.gemspec
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-curb on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.