How To Install soci on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install soci on Rocky Linux 8. soci is The database access library for C++ programmers

Introduction

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

What is soci

soci is a C++ database access library that provides the illusion of embedding SQL in regular C++ code, staying entirely within the C++ standard.

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

Install soci 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 soci using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install soci

Install soci 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 soci using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install soci

How To Uninstall soci on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove soci

soci Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/33b0b28c67a1c8bd40a9d5122bb17ed62d5d34
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/32800cc355689bf7b3714b376677e60011289a
/usr/lib64/libsoci_core.so.4.0
/usr/lib64/libsoci_core.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib64/libsoci_empty.so.4.0
/usr/lib64/libsoci_empty.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/soci
/usr/share/doc/soci/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/soci/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/soci/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/soci/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/soci/README

References

Summary

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