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