How To Install chan on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install chan on Rocky Linux 8. chan is Pure C implementation of Go channels

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chan on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `chan`

Pure C implementation of Go channels. Unbuffered, buffered and closing channels are available.

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

Install chan 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 chan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install chan

Install chan 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 chan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install chan

How To Uninstall chan on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the chan package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove chan

chan Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/39217c560bb2ad13330bffd5bf6874f8ae11ff
/usr/lib64/libchan.so.0
/usr/lib64/libchan.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/chan
/usr/share/doc/chan/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/chan
/usr/share/licenses/chan/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/6a048b33a7133125766f7ac9e828376f6227dd
/usr/lib/libchan.so.0
/usr/lib/libchan.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/chan
/usr/share/doc/chan/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/chan
/usr/share/licenses/chan/LICENSE

References

chan website

Summary

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