How To Install libburn1 on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libburn1 on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libburn1
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 libburn1 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libburn1.
Install libburn1 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 libburn1 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libburn1
Install libburn1 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 libburn1 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libburn1
How To Uninstall libburn1 on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libburn1 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libburn1
libburn1 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/ef509cd9815e6d6a290d3ae86bb361de23a8fd
/usr/lib64/libburn1.so.4
/usr/lib64/libburn1.so.4.107.0
/usr/share/doc/libburn1
/usr/share/doc/libburn1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libburn1/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/libburn1/README
/usr/share/licenses/libburn1
/usr/share/licenses/libburn1/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libburn1 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.