How To Install gridsite-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridsite-libs on Rocky Linux 8. gridsite-libs is Run time libraries for mod_gridsite and gridsite-clients

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridsite-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is gridsite-libs

GridSite was originally a web application developed for managing and formatting the content of the http has grown into a set of extensions to the Apache web server and a toolkit for Grid credentials, GACL access control lists and HTTP(S) protocol operations. This package contains the runtime libraries.

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

Install gridsite-libs 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 gridsite-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gridsite-libs

Install gridsite-libs 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 gridsite-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gridsite-libs

How To Uninstall gridsite-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the gridsite-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gridsite-libs

gridsite-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/889c912ae184d077abd9ceae3fed2c0ade46d7
/usr/lib64/libgridsite.so.6
/usr/lib64/libgridsite.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/gridsite-libs
/usr/share/licenses/gridsite-libs/LICENSE

References

Summary

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