How to Install and Uninstall pcre.src Package on Oracle Linux 8

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "pcre.src" package

Please follow the steps below to install pcre.src on Oracle Linux 8


    
        
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                sudo dnf update
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf install
            
                        
                pcre.src
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "pcre.src" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall pcre.src on Oracle Linux 8:


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pcre.src package on Oracle Linux 8

Last metadata expiration check: 2:28:56 ago on Mon Sep 12 02:51:38 2022.
Available Packages
Name : pcre
Version : 8.42
Release : 6.el8
Architecture : src
Size : 1.5 M
Source : None
Repository : ol8_baseos_latest
Summary : Perl-compatible regular expression library
URL : http://www.pcre.org/
License : BSD
Description : PCRE, Perl-compatible regular expression, library has its own native API, but
: a set of wrapper functions that are based on the POSIX API are also supplied
: in the libpcreposix library. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling
: interface to PCRE: the regular expressions themselves still follow Perl syntax
: and semantics. This package provides support for strings in 8-bit and UTF-8
: encodings. Detailed change log is provided by pcre-doc package.