How To Install fcgi on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fcgi on Rocky Linux 8. fcgi is FastCGI development kit

Introduction

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

What is fcgi

FastCGI is a language independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance without the limitations of server specific APIs.

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

Install fcgi 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 fcgi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fcgi

Install fcgi 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 fcgi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fcgi

How To Uninstall fcgi on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove fcgi

fcgi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/cgi-fcgi
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/c169b578ae51674d789c50af67d952ea8211e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/7934a05b808665051a5c32b76935c81156eb76
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/70b194cc408844a0c5d24ad62504c31612886c
/usr/lib64/libfcgi++.so.0
/usr/lib64/libfcgi++.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libfcgi.so.0
/usr/lib64/libfcgi.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/fcgi
/usr/share/doc/fcgi/LICENSE.TERMS
/usr/share/licenses/fcgi
/usr/share/licenses/fcgi/LICENSE.TERMS
/usr/share/man/man1/cgi-fcgi.1.gz

References

Summary

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