How To Install librepo on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install librepo on Rocky Linux 8. librepo is Repodata downloading library

Introduction

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

What is librepo

A library providing C and Python (libcURL like) API to downloading repository metadata.

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

Install librepo 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 librepo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install librepo

Install librepo 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 librepo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install librepo

How To Uninstall librepo on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove librepo

librepo Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/31b9cb5619aaba367bdf945fa2de561a53e680
/usr/lib/librepo.so.0
/usr/share/doc/librepo
/usr/share/doc/librepo/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/librepo
/usr/share/licenses/librepo/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/42af9168597a85bf1a9f53fe310eae71fffe47
/usr/lib64/librepo.so.0
/usr/share/doc/librepo
/usr/share/doc/librepo/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/librepo
/usr/share/licenses/librepo/COPYING

References

Summary

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