How To Install rpcgen on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install rpcgen on Rocky Linux 8. rpcgen is RPC protocol compiler

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rpcgen on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `rpcgen`

rpcgen is a tool that generates C code to implement an RPC protocol. The input to rpcgen is a language similar to C known as RPC Language (Remote Procedure Call Language).

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

Install rpcgen 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 rpcgen using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rpcgen

Install rpcgen 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 rpcgen using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rpcgen

How To Uninstall rpcgen on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove rpcgen

rpcgen Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/rpcgen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/625ae89891c4fab6820004c192dd172cc1b42e
/usr/share/man/man1/rpcgen.1.gz

References

rpcgen website

Summary

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