How To Install nfdump-libs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nfdump-libs on Rocky Linux 8. nfdump-libs is Libraries used by NFDUMP packages

Introduction

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

What is `nfdump-libs`

Contains libraries used by NFDUMP utilities

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

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

sudo dnf -y install nfdump-libs

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

sudo yum -y install nfdump-libs

How To Uninstall nfdump-libs on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove nfdump-libs

nfdump-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/d9ea214ba3e10f511c74d70623199e904c1f7e
/usr/lib64/libnfdump-1.6.23.so
/usr/lib64/libnfdump.so

References

nfdump-libs website

Summary

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