Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clang on CentOS 8.
What is clang
clang 1. A loud, resonant, metallic sound. 2. The strident call of a crane or goose. 3. C-language family front-end toolkit. The goal of the Clang project is to create a new C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end for the LLVM compiler. Its tools are built as libraries and designed to be loosely-coupled and extensible. clang 11.0.0 1.module_el8.4.0+587+5187cac0 x86_64 87 k clang-11.0.0-1.module_el8.4.0+587+5187cac0.src.rpm appstream A C language family front-end for LLVM http NCSA clang 1. A loud, resonant, metallic sound. 2. The strident call of a crane or goose. 3. C-language family front-end toolkit. The goal of the Clang project is to create a new C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end for the LLVM compiler. Its tools are built as libraries and designed to be loosely-coupled and extensible.
We can use yum or dnf to install clang on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clang.
Install clang 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 clang using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clang
Install clang 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 clang using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clang
How To Uninstall clang on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the clang package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clang
clang Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/clang
/usr/bin/clang++
/usr/bin/clang++-11
/usr/bin/clang-11
/usr/bin/clang-cl
/usr/bin/clang-cpp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/262139b97f2d19d41459ca3399b864f4dbec42
/usr/share/licenses/clang
/usr/share/licenses/clang/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/share/man/man1/clang++-11.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clang++.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clang-11.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clang.1.gz
/usr/bin/clang
/usr/bin/clang++
/usr/bin/clang++-11
/usr/bin/clang-11
/usr/bin/clang-cl
/usr/bin/clang-cpp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/f12b058169832ed9beebdcd42159e383b6a447
/usr/share/licenses/clang
/usr/share/licenses/clang/LICENSE.TXT
/usr/share/man/man1/clang++-11.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clang++.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clang-11.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clang.1.gz
References
- [clang website](http://llvm.org
http://llvm.org)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clang on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
