How To Install cfitsio-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cfitsio-devel on Rocky Linux 8. cfitsio-devel is Headers required when building programs against cfitsio

Introduction

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

What is cfitsio-devel

Headers required when building a program against the cfitsio library.

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

Install cfitsio-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 cfitsio-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cfitsio-devel

Install cfitsio-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 cfitsio-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cfitsio-devel

How To Uninstall cfitsio-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove cfitsio-devel

cfitsio-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/cfitsio
/usr/include/cfitsio/drvrsmem.h
/usr/include/cfitsio/fitsio.h
/usr/include/cfitsio/fitsio2.h
/usr/include/cfitsio/longnam.h
/usr/lib64/libcfitsio.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/cfitsio.pc
/usr/share/doc/cfitsio-devel
/usr/share/doc/cfitsio-devel/cookbook.c
/usr/share/doc/cfitsio-devel/cookbook.f

References

Summary

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