How To Install libtasn1 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtasn1 on Rocky Linux 8. libtasn1 is The ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtasn1 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libtasn1

A library that provides Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1, as specified by the X.680 ITU-T recommendation) parsing and structures management, and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER, as per X.690) encoding and decoding functions.

We can use yum or dnf to install libtasn1 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libtasn1.

Install libtasn1 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 libtasn1 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libtasn1

Install libtasn1 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 libtasn1 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libtasn1

How To Uninstall libtasn1 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libtasn1 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libtasn1

libtasn1 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/88be50493c2240893b5bfec089b5016a4e3c2f
/usr/lib/libtasn1.so.6
/usr/lib/libtasn1.so.6.5.5
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1/README
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/libtasn1
/usr/share/licenses/libtasn1/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libtasn1/COPYING.LIB
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/9fa61735ce80f20942cc628771f5abb891c3f7
/usr/lib64/libtasn1.so.6
/usr/lib64/libtasn1.so.6.5.5
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1/README
/usr/share/doc/libtasn1/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/libtasn1
/usr/share/licenses/libtasn1/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libtasn1/COPYING.LIB

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtasn1 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.