How To Install unibilium on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install unibilium on Rocky Linux 8. unibilium is Terminfo parsing library

Introduction

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

What is unibilium

Unibilium is a very basic terminfo library. It doesn’t depend on curses or any other library. It also doesn’t use global variables, so it should be thread-safe.

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

Install unibilium 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 unibilium using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install unibilium

Install unibilium 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 unibilium using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unibilium

How To Uninstall unibilium on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove unibilium

unibilium Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/62738f7debd3e2582fb102dabffe92894cac0e
/usr/lib64/libunibilium.so.4
/usr/lib64/libunibilium.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/unibilium
/usr/share/doc/unibilium/Changes
/usr/share/licenses/unibilium
/usr/share/licenses/unibilium/LGPLv3

References

Summary

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