How To Install spawn-fcgi on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install spawn-fcgi on Rocky Linux 8. spawn-fcgi is Simple program for spawning FastCGI processes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spawn-fcgi on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `spawn-fcgi`

This package contains the spawn-fcgi program used for spawning FastCGI processes, which can be local or remote.

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

Install spawn-fcgi 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 spawn-fcgi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spawn-fcgi

Install spawn-fcgi 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 spawn-fcgi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spawn-fcgi

How To Uninstall spawn-fcgi on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the spawn-fcgi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove spawn-fcgi

spawn-fcgi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/init.d/spawn-fcgi
/etc/sysconfig/spawn-fcgi
/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/b961d0face13bc126aad80a8147015e5973ec3
/usr/share/doc/spawn-fcgi
/usr/share/doc/spawn-fcgi/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/spawn-fcgi/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/spawn-fcgi/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/spawn-fcgi/README
/usr/share/man/man1/spawn-fcgi.1.gz

References

spawn-fcgi website

Summary

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