How To Install gn on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

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

What is gn

GN is a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja.

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

Install gn 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 gn using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gn

Install gn 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 gn using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gn

How To Uninstall gn on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove gn

gn Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/gn
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/c31df22d95fba0dd06c4521f01a4a8e6317cd0
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/gn-mode.el
/usr/share/licenses/gn
/usr/share/licenses/gn/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/gn.1.gz
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/autoload/gn.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/gnfiletype.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftplugin/gn.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/gn-format.py
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/gn.vim

References

• gn website

Summary

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