How To Install liburing on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install liburing on CentOS 8. liburing is Linux-native io_uring I/O access library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liburing on CentOS 8.

What is liburing

Provides native async IO for the Linux kernel, in a fast and efficient manner, for both buffered and O_DIRECT. Provides native async IO for the Linux kernel, in a fast and efficient manner, for both buffered and O_DIRECT.

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

Install liburing on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install liburing using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liburing

Install liburing on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install liburing using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install liburing

How To Uninstall liburing on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove liburing

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liburing on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.