How To Install libntlm on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libntlm on Rocky Linux 8. libntlm is NTLMv1 authentication library

Introduction

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

What is libntlm

A library for authenticating with Microsoft NTLMV1 challenge-response, derived from Samba sources.

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

Install libntlm 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 libntlm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libntlm

Install libntlm 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 libntlm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libntlm

How To Uninstall libntlm on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libntlm

libntlm Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/97a0bda04b93dc6246f6a24010c5c09007fb54
/usr/lib64/libntlm.so.0
/usr/lib64/libntlm.so.0.0.21
/usr/share/doc/libntlm
/usr/share/doc/libntlm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libntlm/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libntlm/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libntlm/README
/usr/share/doc/libntlm/THANKS

References

Summary

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