How To Install libyang on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libyang on CentOS 8.
What is libyang
Libyang is YANG data modeling language parser and toolkit written (and providing API) in C. Libyang is YANG data modeling language parser and toolkit written (and providing API) in C.
We can use yum or dnf to install libyang on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libyang.
Install libyang on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libyang using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libyang
Install libyang 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 libyang using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libyang
How To Uninstall libyang on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the libyang package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libyang
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libyang on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.