How To Install libdirq on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdirq on CentOS 7. libdirq is C implementation of the simple directory queue algorithm

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdirq on CentOS 7.

What is libdirq

The goal of this library is to offer a “simple” queue system using the underlying filesystem for storage, security and to prevent race conditions via atomic operations. It focuses on simplicity, robustness and scalability. Multiple concurrent readers and writers can interact with the same queue. Other implementations of the same algorithm exist so readers and writers can be written in different programming languages.

We can use yum or dnf to install libdirq on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libdirq.

Install libdirq on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install libdirq using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libdirq

Install libdirq on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install libdirq using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libdirq

How To Uninstall libdirq on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove libdirq

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdirq on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.