Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install soci on CentOS 8.
What is soci
soci is a C++ database access library that provides the illusion of embedding SQL in regular C++ code, staying entirely within the C++ standard.
We can use yum or dnf to install soci on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install soci.
Install soci 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 soci using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install soci
Install soci 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 soci using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install soci
How To Uninstall soci on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the soci package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove soci
soci Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/33b0b28c67a1c8bd40a9d5122bb17ed62d5d34
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/32800cc355689bf7b3714b376677e60011289a
/usr/lib64/libsoci_core.so.4.0
/usr/lib64/libsoci_core.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib64/libsoci_empty.so.4.0
/usr/lib64/libsoci_empty.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/soci
/usr/share/doc/soci/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/soci/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/soci/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/soci/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/soci/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install soci on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
