How To Install libepoxy on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libepoxy on Rocky Linux 8. libepoxy is epoxy runtime library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libepoxy on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `libepoxy`

A library for handling OpenGL function pointer management.

We can use yum or dnf to install libepoxy on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libepoxy.

Install libepoxy 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 libepoxy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libepoxy

Install libepoxy 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 libepoxy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libepoxy

How To Uninstall libepoxy on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libepoxy

libepoxy Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/0f7000278ef46d9e4e288623ffae30d45395bc
/usr/lib/libepoxy.so.0
/usr/lib/libepoxy.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libepoxy
/usr/share/doc/libepoxy/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libepoxy
/usr/share/licenses/libepoxy/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/81c0f45d0ecaf89b1574be2d60120f59287cd0
/usr/lib64/libepoxy.so.0
/usr/lib64/libepoxy.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libepoxy
/usr/share/doc/libepoxy/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libepoxy
/usr/share/licenses/libepoxy/COPYING

References

libepoxy website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libepoxy on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.