How To Install libmount on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

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

What is libmount

This is the device mounting library, part of util-linux.

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

Install libmount 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 libmount using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmount

Install libmount 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 libmount using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmount

How To Uninstall libmount on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libmount

libmount Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/822df27c5d0627161b9515947dcce14c05fa81
/usr/lib/libmount.so.1
/usr/lib/libmount.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/licenses/libmount
/usr/share/licenses/libmount/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libmount/COPYING.LGPLv2.1
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/6e548b5fb7fe8b35c7c95e33401c9fb85c7ef9
/usr/lib64/libmount.so.1
/usr/lib64/libmount.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/licenses/libmount
/usr/share/licenses/libmount/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libmount/COPYING.LGPLv2.1

References

• libmount website

Summary

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