How To Install libassuan on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libassuan on Rocky Linux 8. libassuan is GnuPG IPC library

Introduction

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

What is libassuan

This is the IPC library used by GnuPG 2, GPGME and a few other packages.

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

Install libassuan 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 libassuan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libassuan

Install libassuan 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 libassuan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libassuan

How To Uninstall libassuan on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libassuan

libassuan Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/48
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/4a7d2650d226fca0f12064994a95d1ba75525b
/usr/lib/libassuan.so.0
/usr/lib/libassuan.so.0.8.1
/usr/share/doc/libassuan
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/README
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/libassuan
/usr/share/licenses/libassuan/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libassuan/COPYING.LIB
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/5bd54416a6e60ed153d5b5a5b7c76ba9f83119
/usr/lib64/libassuan.so.0
/usr/lib64/libassuan.so.0.8.1
/usr/share/doc/libassuan
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/README
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/libassuan
/usr/share/licenses/libassuan/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libassuan/COPYING.LIB

References

Summary

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