How To Install unibilium on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unibilium on CentOS 8.
What is unibilium
Unibilium is a very basic terminfo library. It doesn’t depend on curses or any other library. It also doesn’t use global variables, so it should be thread-safe.
We can use yum or dnf to install unibilium on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install unibilium.
Install unibilium 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 unibilium using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install unibilium
Install unibilium 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 unibilium using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install unibilium
How To Uninstall unibilium on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the unibilium package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove unibilium
unibilium Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/62738f7debd3e2582fb102dabffe92894cac0e
/usr/lib64/libunibilium.so.4
/usr/lib64/libunibilium.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/unibilium
/usr/share/doc/unibilium/Changes
/usr/share/licenses/unibilium
/usr/share/licenses/unibilium/LGPLv3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unibilium on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
