How To Install strongswan-sqlite on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-sqlite on Rocky Linux 8. strongswan-sqlite is SQLite support for strongSwan

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install strongswan-sqlite on Rocky Linux 8.

What is strongswan-sqlite

The sqlite plugin adds an SQLite database backend to strongSwan.

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

Install strongswan-sqlite 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 strongswan-sqlite using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install strongswan-sqlite

Install strongswan-sqlite 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 strongswan-sqlite using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install strongswan-sqlite

How To Uninstall strongswan-sqlite on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the strongswan-sqlite package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove strongswan-sqlite

strongswan-sqlite Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/cf02b29748dab93d18c5580bf19997fbacb681
/usr/lib64/strongswan/plugins/libstrongswan-sqlite.so

References

Summary

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