How To Install cairo-gobject-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cairo-gobject-devel on Rocky Linux 8. cairo-gobject-devel is Development files for cairo-gobject

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cairo-gobject-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is cairo-gobject-devel

Cairo is a 2D graphics library designed to provide high-quality display and print output. This package contains libraries, header files and developer documentation needed for developing software which uses the cairo Gobject library.

We can use yum or dnf to install cairo-gobject-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cairo-gobject-devel.

Install cairo-gobject-devel on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cairo-gobject-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cairo-gobject-devel

Install cairo-gobject-devel on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cairo-gobject-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cairo-gobject-devel

How To Uninstall cairo-gobject-devel on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the cairo-gobject-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cairo-gobject-devel

cairo-gobject-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/cairo/cairo-gobject.h
/usr/lib/libcairo-gobject.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo-gobject.pc
/usr/include/cairo/cairo-gobject.h
/usr/lib64/libcairo-gobject.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/cairo-gobject.pc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cairo-gobject-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.