How To Install ivykis on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ivykis on AlmaLinux 8.
What is ivykis
ivykis is a library for asynchronous I/O readiness notification. It is a thin, portable wrapper around OS-provided mechanisms such as epoll_create(2), kqueue(2), poll(2), poll(7d) (/dev/poll) and port_create(3C). ivykis was mainly designed for building high-performance network applications, but can be used in any event-driven application that uses poll(2)able file descriptors as its event sources.
We can use yum or dnf to install ivykis on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ivykis.
Install ivykis on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ivykis using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ivykis
Install ivykis on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ivykis using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ivykis
How To Uninstall ivykis on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the ivykis package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ivykis
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ivykis on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.