How To Install libiscsi on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libiscsi on Rocky Linux 8. libiscsi is iSCSI client library

Introduction

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

What is libiscsi

libiscsi is a library for attaching to iSCSI resources across a network.

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

Install libiscsi 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 libiscsi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libiscsi

Install libiscsi 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 libiscsi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libiscsi

How To Uninstall libiscsi on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libiscsi

libiscsi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/ld.so.conf.d/libiscsi-x86_64.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/ecf720bdc99188cbcc80b1beb1d71eb17ce59e
/usr/lib64/iscsi
/usr/lib64/iscsi/libiscsi.so.8
/usr/lib64/iscsi/libiscsi.so.8.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi/README
/usr/share/doc/libiscsi/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/libiscsi
/usr/share/licenses/libiscsi/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libiscsi/LICENCE-LGPL-2.1.txt

References

Summary

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