How To Install wcstools-libs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wcstools-libs on CentOS 8.
What is wcstools-libs
Shared library necessary to run wcstools and programs based on libwcs.
We can use yum or dnf to install wcstools-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wcstools-libs.
Install wcstools-libs 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 wcstools-libs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wcstools-libs
Install wcstools-libs 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 wcstools-libs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wcstools-libs
How To Uninstall wcstools-libs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the wcstools-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wcstools-libs
wcstools-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/f40f39edf764d82bff35cf69cb316e6b6aab5b
/usr/lib64/libwcstools.so.1
/usr/lib64/libwcstools.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/wcstools-libs
/usr/share/licenses/wcstools-libs/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wcstools-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.