How To Install libdb-cxx on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdb-cxx on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libdb-cxx
The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, and database recovery. The Berkeley DB supports C, C++, Java, and Perl APIs. It is used by many applications, including Python and Perl, so this should be installed on all systems.
We can use yum or dnf to install libdb-cxx on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libdb-cxx.
Install libdb-cxx 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 libdb-cxx using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libdb-cxx
Install libdb-cxx 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 libdb-cxx using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libdb-cxx
How To Uninstall libdb-cxx on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libdb-cxx package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libdb-cxx
libdb-cxx Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/77566103a8baf9b7db0a675e4b936160807ae1
/usr/lib64/libdb_cxx-5.3.so
/usr/lib64/libdb_cxx-5.so
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/6f9b53cc7adcd783cac5f8623810f75361bf02
/usr/lib/libdb_cxx-5.3.so
/usr/lib/libdb_cxx-5.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdb-cxx on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.