How To Install canl-c on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install canl-c on Rocky Linux 8. canl-c is EMI Common Authentication library - bindings for C

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install canl-c on Rocky Linux 8.

What is canl-c

This is the C part of the EMI caNl – the Common Authentication Library.

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

Install canl-c 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 canl-c using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install canl-c

Install canl-c 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 canl-c using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install canl-c

How To Uninstall canl-c on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the canl-c package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove canl-c

canl-c Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/b2e09ecad366a7c9fd015fb7e152d321389536
/usr/lib64/libcanl_c.so.4
/usr/lib64/libcanl_c.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/canl-c
/usr/share/doc/canl-c/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/canl-c/README
/usr/share/licenses/canl-c
/usr/share/licenses/canl-c/LICENSE

References

Summary

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