How To Install libburn on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libburn on Rocky Linux 8. libburn is Library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs

Introduction

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

What is libburn

Libburn is a library by which preformatted data get onto optical media CD, DVD and BD (Blu-Ray). It also offers a facility for reading data blocks from its drives without using the normal block device I/O, which has advantages and disadvantages. It seems appropriate, nevertheless, to do writing and reading via same channel. On several Linux systems, the block device driver needs reloading of the drive tray in order to make available freshly written data. The libburn read function does not need such a reload. The code of libburn is independent of cdrecord.

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

Install libburn 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 libburn using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libburn

Install libburn 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 libburn using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libburn

How To Uninstall libburn on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libburn

libburn Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/b17d5b01197e4b8107ed148a48e4302801e20b
/usr/lib64/libburn.so.4
/usr/lib64/libburn.so.4.101.0
/usr/share/doc/libburn
/usr/share/doc/libburn/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libburn/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/libburn/README
/usr/share/licenses/libburn
/usr/share/licenses/libburn/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/627c185fb969886cfaf3346439e69ed234971e
/usr/lib/libburn.so.4
/usr/lib/libburn.so.4.101.0
/usr/share/doc/libburn
/usr/share/doc/libburn/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libburn/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/libburn/README
/usr/share/licenses/libburn
/usr/share/licenses/libburn/COPYING

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Summary

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