How To Install ivykis on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ivykis on Rocky Linux 8. ivykis is Library for asynchronous I/O readiness notification

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ivykis on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ivykis.

Install ivykis 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 ivykis using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ivykis

Install ivykis 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 ivykis using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ivykis

How To Uninstall ivykis on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove ivykis

ivykis Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/64e41ba7d4ba8d58e5ebd49c19a11a26ea1d8e
/usr/lib64/libivykis.so.0
/usr/lib64/libivykis.so.0.5.6
/usr/share/doc/ivykis
/usr/share/doc/ivykis/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ivykis/COPYING

References

ivykis website

Summary

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