How To Install samba-common-libs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-common-libs on CentOS 8.
What is samba-common-libs
The samba-common-libs package contains internal libraries needed by the SMB/CIFS clients.
We can use yum or dnf to install samba-common-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install samba-common-libs.
Install samba-common-libs 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 samba-common-libs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install samba-common-libs
Install samba-common-libs 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 samba-common-libs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install samba-common-libs
How To Uninstall samba-common-libs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the samba-common-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove samba-common-libs
samba-common-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/155b60d3a8a7466cd21bdef958dae110827156
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/d0e046291eef2e23a8a0dbb88c6c918b08a34b
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/dedefa508b490c527c74307c9130f497d9a4e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/5add286e1ec5b73fa2b65d4003b967cf356266
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/29c3fb23e0b4ae63c21e6086dc42fde37e21a4
/usr/lib64/samba/ldb
/usr/lib64/samba/libpopt-samba3-cmdline-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/libpopt-samba3-samba4.so
/usr/lib64/samba/pdb
/usr/lib64/samba/pdb/ldapsam.so
/usr/lib64/samba/pdb/smbpasswd.so
/usr/lib64/samba/pdb/tdbsam.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-common-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
