How To Install distcc-server on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install distcc-server on Rocky Linux 8. distcc-server is Server for distributed C/C++ compilation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install distcc-server on Rocky Linux 8.

What is distcc-server

This package contains the compilation server needed to use distcc.

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

Install distcc-server 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 distcc-server using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install distcc-server

Install distcc-server 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 distcc-server using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install distcc-server

How To Uninstall distcc-server on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the distcc-server package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove distcc-server

distcc-server Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/default/distcc
/etc/distcc/clients.allow
/etc/distcc/commands.allow.sh
/etc/sysconfig/distccd
/usr/bin/distccd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/7d4addae72f2ec3aed42639ea859df93a9c789
/usr/lib/distcc
/usr/lib/gcc-cross
/usr/lib/systemd/system/distccd.service
/usr/lib64/distcc
/usr/sbin/update-distcc-symlinks
/usr/share/doc/distcc-server
/usr/share/doc/distcc-server/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/distcc-server/README
/usr/share/man/man1/distccd.1.gz

References

Summary

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