How To Install lua-cyrussasl on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-cyrussasl on Rocky Linux 8. lua-cyrussasl is Cyrus SASL library for Lua

Introduction

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

What is `lua-cyrussasl`

Lua bindings for the Cyrus SASL APIs.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install lua-cyrussasl

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

sudo yum -y install lua-cyrussasl

How To Uninstall lua-cyrussasl on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove lua-cyrussasl

lua-cyrussasl Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/03450c992fb52f84fbc17076b6cf0c917863db
/usr/lib64/lua/5.3/cyrussasl.so
/usr/share/doc/lua-cyrussasl
/usr/share/doc/lua-cyrussasl/README
/usr/share/licenses/lua-cyrussasl
/usr/share/licenses/lua-cyrussasl/LICENSE

References

lua-cyrussasl website

Summary

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