How to install libbsd on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and RHEL

Library providing BSD-compatible functions for portability

License: Beerware AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND ISC AND libutil-David-Nugent AND MIT AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain Vendor: Fedora Project https://libbsd.freedesktop.org/

Availability

Compare package tracks by distribution and architecture. Checkmarks show the architectures available in each repository channel.

Distro	Channel	Version
RHEL 10	Base	0.12.2
RHEL 9	Base	0.12.2
RHEL 8	Base	0.12.2
RHEL 7	Base	0.8.3

Description

libbsd provides useful functions commonly found on BSD systems, and lacking on others like GNU systems, thus making it easier to port projects with strong BSD origins, without needing to embed the same code over and over again on each project.

Built for AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and RHEL.

Install

Base RHEL 7, 8, 9, 10

libbsd on AlmaLinux / Rocky Linux / Oracle Linux / RHEL 8, 9, 10

sudo dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo dnf -y install libbsd

libbsd on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install libbsd

Frequently asked questions

How do I install libbsd on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and RHEL?

Add the GetPageSpeed repository, then install the libbsd package with your system package manager.

Which Enterprise Linux versions is libbsd available for?

libbsd is available for RHEL 7, 8, 9, 10.