How To Install PDAL-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install PDAL-libs on Rocky Linux 8. PDAL-libs is The shared libraries required for PDAL

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install PDAL-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is PDAL-libs

The pdal-libs package provides the essential shared libraries for any PDAL client program or interface. You will need to install this package to use PDAL

We can use yum or dnf to install PDAL-libs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install PDAL-libs.

Install PDAL-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install PDAL-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install PDAL-libs

Install PDAL-libs on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install PDAL-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install PDAL-libs

How To Uninstall PDAL-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the PDAL-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove PDAL-libs

PDAL-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/859d04ef97953ac5ff5d107c5dc09636c80ff1
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/4fa9b85a4ece12e20632f752b708261a4c14a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/6b6d53161b9a7985bf912ea56076e2d28bcda8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/d00ca41a4ca507b6bd11d2a522f8b5998b9b8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/374d171d6ffb6437fadd168b0a21bc2ca39a96
/usr/lib64/libpdal_base.so.10
/usr/lib64/libpdal_base.so.11
/usr/lib64/libpdal_plugin_kernel_fauxplugin.so.10
/usr/lib64/libpdal_plugin_kernel_fauxplugin.so.11
/usr/lib64/libpdal_plugin_reader_pgpointcloud.so.10
/usr/lib64/libpdal_plugin_reader_pgpointcloud.so.11
/usr/lib64/libpdal_plugin_writer_pgpointcloud.so.10
/usr/lib64/libpdal_plugin_writer_pgpointcloud.so.11
/usr/lib64/libpdal_util.so.10
/usr/lib64/libpdal_util.so.11
/usr/share/licenses/PDAL-libs
/usr/share/licenses/PDAL-libs/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/PDAL-libs/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/licenses/PDAL-libs/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install PDAL-libs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.