How To Install libpmemobj on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmemobj on Rocky Linux 8. libpmemobj is Persistent Memory Transactional Object Store library

Introduction

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

What is libpmemobj

The libpmemobj library provides a transactional object store, providing memory allocation, transactions, and general facilities for persistent memory programming.

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

Install libpmemobj 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 libpmemobj using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libpmemobj

Install libpmemobj 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 libpmemobj using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpmemobj

How To Uninstall libpmemobj on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libpmemobj

libpmemobj Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/68785ff2a52f96b6f9e342593595fe177e6501
/usr/lib64/libpmemobj.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpmemobj.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libpmemobj
/usr/share/doc/libpmemobj/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/libpmemobj/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libpmemobj/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libpmemobj
/usr/share/licenses/libpmemobj/LICENSE

References

Summary

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