How To Install xapian-bindings on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xapian-bindings on CentOS 8.
What is xapian-bindings
Xapian is an Open Source Probabilistic Information Retrieval Library. It offers a highly adaptable toolkit that allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to applications. This package provides the files needed for scripts which use Xapian.
We can use yum or dnf to install xapian-bindings on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xapian-bindings.
Install xapian-bindings 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 xapian-bindings using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xapian-bindings
Install xapian-bindings 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 xapian-bindings using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xapian-bindings
How To Uninstall xapian-bindings on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xapian-bindings package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xapian-bindings
xapian-bindings Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/xapian-bindings
/usr/share/doc/xapian-bindings/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xapian-bindings/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xapian-bindings/README
/usr/share/licenses/xapian-bindings
/usr/share/licenses/xapian-bindings/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xapian-bindings on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.