How To Install yasm on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yasm on CentOS 8.
What is yasm
Yasm is a complete rewrite of the NASM assembler under the “new” BSD License (some portions are under other licenses, see COPYING for details). It is designed from the ground up to allow for multiple assembler syntaxes to be supported (eg, NASM, TASM, GAS, etc.) in addition to multiple output object formats and even multiple instruction sets. Another primary module of the overall design is an optimizer module.
We can use yum or dnf to install yasm on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yasm.
Install yasm 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 yasm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install yasm
Install yasm 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 yasm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install yasm
How To Uninstall yasm on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the yasm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove yasm
yasm Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/vsyasm
/usr/bin/yasm
/usr/bin/ytasm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/0802dc7b9659dd63525a92009ec2c8fa6a17ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/a3530aae2081b60d3f782401fb2e26507a188e
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/cdfde49fad9025e280fd92b2aadc02b3527c5e
/usr/share/doc/yasm
/usr/share/doc/yasm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/yasm
/usr/share/licenses/yasm/Artistic.txt
/usr/share/licenses/yasm/BSD.txt
/usr/share/licenses/yasm/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/yasm/GNU_GPL-2.0
/usr/share/licenses/yasm/GNU_LGPL-2.0
/usr/share/man/man1/yasm.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yasm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.