How To Install libedit on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libedit on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libedit
Libedit is an autotool- and libtoolized port of the NetBSD Editline library. It provides generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions, similar to those found in GNU Readline.
We can use yum or dnf to install libedit on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libedit.
Install libedit 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 libedit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libedit
Install libedit 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 libedit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libedit
How To Uninstall libedit on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libedit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libedit
libedit Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/87adae50b24d9001c8ed89c7dd4245b1700a8f
/usr/lib/libedit.so.0
/usr/lib/libedit.so.0.0.56
/usr/share/doc/libedit
/usr/share/doc/libedit/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libedit/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/libedit
/usr/share/licenses/libedit/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/editrc.5.gz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/800832d0c31fd054eb498a8818d49a9f2f2d7c
/usr/lib64/libedit.so.0
/usr/lib64/libedit.so.0.0.56
/usr/share/doc/libedit
/usr/share/doc/libedit/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libedit/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/libedit
/usr/share/licenses/libedit/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/editrc.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libedit on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.