How To Install soci-postgresql on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install soci-postgresql on CentOS 8.
What is soci-postgresql
This package contains the PostGreSQL back-end for soci, i.e., dynamic library specific to the PostGreSQL database. If you would like to use soci in your programs with PostGreSQL, you will need to install soci-postgresql.
We can use yum or dnf to install soci-postgresql on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install soci-postgresql.
Install soci-postgresql 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-postgresql using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install soci-postgresql
Install soci-postgresql 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-postgresql using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install soci-postgresql
How To Uninstall soci-postgresql on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the soci-postgresql package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove soci-postgresql
soci-postgresql Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/8d5b91a8fcffe0443690d700d41cce0b399685
/usr/lib64/libsoci_postgresql.so.4.0
/usr/lib64/libsoci_postgresql.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/soci-postgresql
/usr/share/doc/soci-postgresql/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/soci-postgresql/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/soci-postgresql/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/soci-postgresql/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/soci-postgresql/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install soci-postgresql on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.