How To Install tcl-thread on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcl-thread on CentOS 8.
What is tcl-thread
Thread extension for the Tcl toolkit. You can use this extension to gain script level access to Tcl threading capabilities.
We can use yum or dnf to install tcl-thread on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcl-thread.
Install tcl-thread 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 tcl-thread using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tcl-thread
Install tcl-thread 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 tcl-thread using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcl-thread
How To Uninstall tcl-thread on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tcl-thread package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tcl-thread
tcl-thread Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/da26062f453328e8679a3f4094040303e96657
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/thread2.8.2
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/thread2.8.2/libthread2.8.2.so
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/thread2.8.2/pkgIndex.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/thread2.8.2/ttrace.tcl
/usr/share/doc/tcl-thread
/usr/share/doc/tcl-thread/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tcl-thread/README
/usr/share/licenses/tcl-thread
/usr/share/licenses/tcl-thread/license.terms
/usr/share/man/mann/thread.n.gz
/usr/share/man/mann/tpool.n.gz
/usr/share/man/mann/tsv.n.gz
/usr/share/man/mann/ttrace.n.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcl-thread on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.