How To Install gperf on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gperf on Rocky Linux 8.
What is gperf
Gperf is a perfect hash function generator written in C++. Simply stated, a perfect hash function is a hash function and a data structure that allows recognition of a key word in a set of words using exactly one probe into the data structure.
We can use yum or dnf to install gperf on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gperf.
Install gperf 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 gperf using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gperf
Install gperf 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 gperf using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gperf
How To Uninstall gperf on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the gperf package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gperf
gperf Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/gperf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/8fdff40833fbe3c6a028c226c6d6d243e1f01d
/usr/share/doc/gperf
/usr/share/doc/gperf/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gperf/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gperf/README
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf.pdf
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_1.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_10.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_2.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_3.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_4.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_5.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_6.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_7.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_8.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_9.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_toc.html
/usr/share/info/gperf.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gperf.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gperf on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.