Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apr on CentOS 8.
What is apr
The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system portability layer to as many operating systems as possible, including Unices, MS Win32, BeOS and OS/2. apr 1.6.3 11.el8 x86_64 125 k apr-1.6.3-11.el8.src.rpm appstream Apache Portable Runtime library http ASL 2.0 and BSD with advertising and ISC and BSD The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system portability layer to as many operating systems as possible, including Unices, MS Win32, BeOS and OS/2.
We can use yum or dnf to install apr on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install apr.
Install apr on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install apr using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install apr
Install apr on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install apr using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install apr
How To Uninstall apr on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the apr package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove apr
apr Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/40c5e5cfcf9b38d390d5599c0dfd55437e8d4d
/usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0
/usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0.6.3
/usr/share/doc/apr
/usr/share/doc/apr/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/apr/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/apr/NOTICE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/ae2cb8e005a572e5d1839c7ae067ee7b2287aa
/usr/lib64/libapr-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libapr-1.so.0.6.3
/usr/share/doc/apr
/usr/share/doc/apr/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/apr/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/apr/NOTICE
References
- [apr website](http://apr.apache.org/
http://apr.apache.org/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apr on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
