How To Install soci on CentOS 8

soci is The database access library for C++ programmers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install soci on CentOS 8.

What is soci

soci is a C++ database access library that provides the illusion of embedding SQL in regular C++ code, staying entirely within the C++ standard.

We can use yum or dnf to install soci on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install soci.

Install soci 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 soci using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install soci

Install soci 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 soci using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install soci

How To Uninstall soci on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the soci package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove soci

soci Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/33b0b28c67a1c8bd40a9d5122bb17ed62d5d34
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/32800cc355689bf7b3714b376677e60011289a
/usr/lib64/libsoci_core.so.4.0
/usr/lib64/libsoci_core.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib64/libsoci_empty.so.4.0
/usr/lib64/libsoci_empty.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/soci
/usr/share/doc/soci/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/soci/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/soci/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/soci/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/soci/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install soci on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.