How To Install slang on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slang on CentOS 8.
What is slang
S-Lang is an interpreted language and a programming library. The S-Lang language was designed so that it can be easily embedded into a program to provide the program with a powerful extension language. The S-Lang library, provided in this package, provides the S-Lang extension language. S-Lang’s syntax resembles C, which makes it easy to recode S-Lang procedures in C if you need to. slang 2.3.2 3.el8 x86_64 368 k slang-2.3.2-3.el8.src.rpm baseos The shared library for the S-Lang extension language https GPLv2+ S-Lang is an interpreted language and a programming library. The S-Lang language was designed so that it can be easily embedded into a program to provide the program with a powerful extension language. The S-Lang library, provided in this package, provides the S-Lang extension language. S-Lang’s syntax resembles C, which makes it easy to recode S-Lang procedures in C if you need to.
We can use yum or dnf to install slang on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slang.
Install slang 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 slang using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install slang
Install slang 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 slang using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slang
How To Uninstall slang on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the slang package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove slang
slang Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/6f9b131ff6036210d149973ab16ec4330b1f5d
/usr/lib/libslang.so.2
/usr/lib/libslang.so.2.3.2
/usr/share/doc/slang
/usr/share/doc/slang/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/slang
/usr/share/licenses/slang/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/f0dd283816d362603775a4e48d602fc12bde1a
/usr/lib64/libslang.so.2
/usr/lib64/libslang.so.2.3.2
/usr/share/doc/slang
/usr/share/doc/slang/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/slang
/usr/share/licenses/slang/COPYING
References
- [slang website](https://www.jedsoft.org/slang/ https://www.jedsoft.org/slang/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slang on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
