How To Install device-mapper-event on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-event on Rocky Linux 8.
What is device-mapper-event
This package contains the dmeventd daemon for monitoring the state of device-mapper devices.
We can use yum or dnf to install device-mapper-event on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install device-mapper-event.
Install device-mapper-event 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 device-mapper-event using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install device-mapper-event
Install device-mapper-event 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 device-mapper-event using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install device-mapper-event
How To Uninstall device-mapper-event on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the device-mapper-event package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove device-mapper-event
device-mapper-event Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/6abd3ace5fdc95c94268066d43f4d23856d6a5
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dm-event.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dm-event.socket
/usr/sbin/dmeventd
/usr/share/man/man8/dmeventd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-event on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
