How To Install librcd-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install librcd-devel on Rocky Linux 8. librcd-devel is Development files for librcd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librcd-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is librcd-devel

LibRCD is used by RusXMMS project for encoding auto-detection. It is optimized to handle very short titles, like ID3 tags, file names and etc, and provides very high accuracy even for short 3-4 letter words. Current version supports Russian and Ukrainian languages and able to distinguish UTF-8, KOI8-R, CP1251, CP866, ISO8859-1. If compared with Enca, LibRCC provides better detection accuracy on short titles and is able to detect ISO8859-1 (non-Cyrillic) encoding what allows to properly display correct ID3 v.1 titles. The librcd-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use librcd.

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

Install librcd-devel 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 librcd-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install librcd-devel

Install librcd-devel 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 librcd-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install librcd-devel

How To Uninstall librcd-devel on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the librcd-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove librcd-devel

librcd-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/librcd.h
/usr/lib64/librcd.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/librcd.pc
/usr/share/doc/librcd-devel
/usr/share/doc/librcd-devel/ChangeLog

References

Summary

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