Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install anope-pcre on CentOS 8.
What is anope-pcre
Anope is a set of IRC services designed for flexibility and ease of use. This package provides an Anope module to support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE).
We can use yum or dnf to install anope-pcre on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install anope-pcre.
Install anope-pcre 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 anope-pcre using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install anope-pcre
Install anope-pcre 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 anope-pcre using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install anope-pcre
How To Uninstall anope-pcre on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the anope-pcre package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove anope-pcre
anope-pcre Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/f336738c69ff29275b7e80ec97593902e4ccad
/usr/lib64/anope/modules/m_regex_pcre.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install anope-pcre on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
