How To Install libtar on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtar on Rocky Linux 8. libtar is Tar file manipulation API

Introduction

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

What is libtar

libtar is a C library for manipulating tar archives. It supports both the strict POSIX tar format and many of the commonly-used GNU extensions.

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

Install libtar 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 libtar using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libtar

Install libtar 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 libtar using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libtar

How To Uninstall libtar on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libtar

libtar Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/libtar
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/4302f55f1302ce620ab58ecaef9b8dcc41c4de
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/c1d375d412edde642624f89e5f8270d3e04038
/usr/lib64/libtar.so.1
/usr/lib64/libtar.so.1.2.20
/usr/share/doc/libtar
/usr/share/doc/libtar/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/libtar/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libtar/ChangeLog-1.0.x
/usr/share/doc/libtar/README
/usr/share/doc/libtar/TODO
/usr/bin/libtar
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/86760dae633534b355c5e44da34dbbefc217d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/a3b3f584510b72271e692bb3e7d5e7517442cc
/usr/lib/libtar.so.1
/usr/lib/libtar.so.1.2.20
/usr/share/doc/libtar
/usr/share/doc/libtar/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/libtar/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libtar/ChangeLog-1.0.x
/usr/share/doc/libtar/README
/usr/share/doc/libtar/TODO

References

Summary

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