How To Install libIDL on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

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

What is libIDL

libIDL is a library for parsing IDL (Interface Definition Language). It can be used for both COM-style and CORBA-style IDL.

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

Install libIDL 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 libIDL using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libIDL

Install libIDL 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 libIDL using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libIDL

How To Uninstall libIDL on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libIDL

libIDL Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/4a0c14c96fedbf2c8b041ce6b9f76993ed5bfe
/usr/lib/libIDL-2.so.0
/usr/lib/libIDL-2.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libIDL
/usr/share/doc/libIDL/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libIDL/MAINTAINERS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/387272a290b4cbfcd6aa5148db0263967f0703
/usr/lib64/libIDL-2.so.0
/usr/lib64/libIDL-2.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libIDL
/usr/share/doc/libIDL/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libIDL/MAINTAINERS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libIDL/README

References

• libIDL website

Summary

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