How To Install lua-basexx on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-basexx on Rocky Linux 8. lua-basexx is BaseXX encoding and decoding library for Lua

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-basexx on Rocky Linux 8.

What is lua-basexx

A Lua library for base2, base16, base32, base64, base85 decoding and encoding of data strings.

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

Install lua-basexx 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 lua-basexx using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lua-basexx

Install lua-basexx 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 lua-basexx using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lua-basexx

How To Uninstall lua-basexx on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the lua-basexx package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lua-basexx

lua-basexx Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/lua-basexx
/usr/share/doc/lua-basexx/README.adoc
/usr/share/licenses/lua-basexx
/usr/share/licenses/lua-basexx/LICENSE
/usr/share/lua/5.3/basexx.lua

References

Summary

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