How To Install libdispatch on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdispatch on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libdispatch
Grand Central Dispatch (GCD or libdispatch) provides comprehensive support for concurrent code execution on multicore hardware. libdispatch is currently available on all Darwin platforms. This project aims to make a modern version of libdispatch available on all other Swift platforms. To do this, we will implement as much of the portable subset of the API as possible, using the existing open source C implementation. libdispatch on Darwin is a combination of logic in the xnu kernel alongside the user-space Library. The kernel has the most information available to balance workload across the entire system. As a first step, however, we believe it is useful to bring up the basic functionality of the library using user-space pthread primitives on Linux. Eventually, a Linux kernel module could be developed to support more informed thread scheduling.
We can use yum or dnf to install libdispatch on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libdispatch.
Install libdispatch 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 libdispatch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libdispatch
Install libdispatch 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 libdispatch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libdispatch
How To Uninstall libdispatch on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libdispatch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libdispatch
libdispatch Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/661f4f759bccfeb65ba76d6da3ab707cf46275
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/55610f5ed9c1a4ce92a5be510cd478674d2c45
/usr/lib64/libBlocksRuntime.so
/usr/lib64/libdispatch.so
/usr/share/licenses/libdispatch
/usr/share/licenses/libdispatch/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_after.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_api.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_apply.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_async.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_data_create.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_group_create.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_io_create.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_io_read.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_object.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_once.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_queue_create.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_read.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_semaphore_create.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_source_create.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/dispatch_time.3.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdispatch on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.