How To Install shc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shc on CentOS 8.
What is shc
SHC is a generic shell script compiler. It takes a script, which is specified on the command line and produces C source code. The generated source code is then compiled and linked to produce a s- tripped binary.
We can use yum or dnf to install shc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install shc.
Install shc 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 shc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install shc
Install shc 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 shc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install shc
How To Uninstall shc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the shc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove shc
shc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/shc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/609fbe925ef1fa9b22be2c1cb44cf4bc4c160d
/usr/share/doc/shc
/usr/share/doc/shc/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/shc/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/shc/README
/usr/share/doc/shc/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/shc
/usr/share/licenses/shc/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/shc.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.