Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install calc-libs on CentOS 8.
What is calc-libs
Shared libraries used by the calc command line calculator and other programs using its arbitrary precision arithmetic routines.
We can use yum or dnf to install calc-libs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install calc-libs.
Install calc-libs 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 calc-libs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install calc-libs
Install calc-libs 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 calc-libs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install calc-libs
How To Uninstall calc-libs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the calc-libs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove calc-libs
calc-libs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/a6be5a81ef6c5d66ab5f49feac74483139106c
/usr/lib64/libcalc.so.2.12.7.2
/usr/share/doc/calc-libs
/usr/share/doc/calc-libs/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/calc-libs/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/calc-libs
/usr/share/licenses/calc-libs/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/calc-libs/COPYING-GPL
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install calc-libs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
