How to install pcre on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux & RHEL
Perl-compatible regular expression library
Availability
| Distro | aarch64 | noarch | x86_64 | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RHEL 10 | ✓ | — | ✓ | 8.45 |
| RHEL 9 | — | — | — | |
| RHEL 8 | — | — | — | |
| RHEL 7 | — | — | — | |
| RHEL 6 | — | — | — |
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.
Compatible with all RHEL-based distributions, including CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.
Install
pcre on AlmaLinux / Rocky Linux / Oracle Linux / RHEL 10
sudo dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm sudo dnf -y install pcre
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Subscribe — from $10/moFrequently asked questions
How do I install pcre on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or RHEL?
Add the GetPageSpeed repository, then run: sudo dnf -y install pcre (use yum on EL7). The same package works on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, CentOS Stream and RHEL.
Which Enterprise Linux versions is pcre available for?
pcre is available for RHEL 10 and the matching AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux releases.
Is pcre compatible with Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and CentOS Stream?
Yes. The RPM is built for Enterprise Linux and is binary-compatible across all RHEL rebuilds of the same major version, including AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and CentOS Stream.