How To Install lld on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lld on CentOS 8. lld is The LLVM Linker

Introduction

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

What is lld

The LLVM project linker. The LLVM project linker.

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

Install lld on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install lld

Install lld 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 lld using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lld

How To Uninstall lld on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove lld

References

Summary

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