How To Install libsmbios on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsmbios on Rocky Linux 8. libsmbios is Libsmbios C/C++ shared libraries

Introduction

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

What is `libsmbios`

Libsmbios is a library and utilities that can be used by client programs to get information from standard BIOS tables, such as the SMBIOS table. This package provides the C-based libsmbios library, with a C interface.

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

Install libsmbios 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 libsmbios using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libsmbios

Install libsmbios 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 libsmbios using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsmbios

How To Uninstall libsmbios on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libsmbios

libsmbios Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/be3f2088d58140a1424ce3d3d31da6a6db3e59
/usr/lib64/libsmbios_c.so.2
/usr/lib64/libsmbios_c.so.2.2.1
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/11bc4fb6e9e047161f26245db772063bddc700
/usr/lib/libsmbios_c.so.2
/usr/lib/libsmbios_c.so.2.2.1
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo

References

libsmbios website

Summary

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