How To Install munge-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install munge-libs on Rocky Linux 8. munge-libs is Runtime libs for uid * gid authentication across a host cluster

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install munge-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `munge-libs`

Runtime libraries for using MUNGE.

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

Install munge-libs 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 munge-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install munge-libs

Install munge-libs 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 munge-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install munge-libs

How To Uninstall munge-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the munge-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove munge-libs

munge-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/3fbf28cfa625f95285426173cbc7e948aff9fe
/usr/lib64/libmunge.so.2
/usr/lib64/libmunge.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/0e0af36a16808df64485137934e94ad0124d84
/usr/lib/libmunge.so.2
/usr/lib/libmunge.so.2.0.0

References

munge-libs website

Summary

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