How To Install libpsl on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpsl on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libpsl
libpsl is a C library to handle the Public Suffix List. A “public suffix” is a domain name under which Internet users can directly register own names. Browsers and other web clients can use it to - Avoid privacy-leaking “supercookies”; - Avoid privacy-leaking “super domain” certificates; - Domain highlighting parts of the domain in a user interface; - Sorting domain lists by site; Libpsl… - has built-in PSL data for fast access; - allows to load PSL data from files; - checks if a given domain is a “public suffix”; - provides immediate cookie domain verification; - finds the longest public part of a given domain; - finds the shortest private part of a given domain; - works with international domains (UTF-8 and IDNA2008 Punycode); - is thread-safe; - handles IDNA2008 UTS#46;
We can use yum or dnf to install libpsl on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libpsl.
Install libpsl 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 libpsl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libpsl
Install libpsl 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 libpsl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libpsl
How To Uninstall libpsl on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libpsl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libpsl
libpsl Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/daaa728c3627d41bc8acaa33c29b83e8696c3f
/usr/lib/libpsl.so.5
/usr/lib/libpsl.so.5.3.1
/usr/share/licenses/libpsl
/usr/share/licenses/libpsl/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/d3b992d60e5da6355e29db048ff3fe19dda374
/usr/lib64/libpsl.so.5
/usr/lib64/libpsl.so.5.3.1
/usr/share/licenses/libpsl
/usr/share/licenses/libpsl/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpsl on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.