How To Install device-mapper-multipath-devel on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-multipath-devel on Rocky Linux 8.
What is device-mapper-multipath-devel
This package contains the files need to develop applications that use device-mapper-multipath’s lbmpathpersist and libmpathcmd libraries.
We can use yum or dnf to install device-mapper-multipath-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install device-mapper-multipath-devel.
Install device-mapper-multipath-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 device-mapper-multipath-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install device-mapper-multipath-devel
Install device-mapper-multipath-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 device-mapper-multipath-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install device-mapper-multipath-devel
How To Uninstall device-mapper-multipath-devel on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the device-mapper-multipath-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove device-mapper-multipath-devel
device-mapper-multipath-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/include/mpath_cmd.h
/usr/include/mpath_persist.h
/usr/lib/libmpathcmd.so
/usr/lib/libmpathpersist.so
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel/GPL-2.0
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel/LGPL-2.0
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel/README
/usr/share/man/man3/mpath_persistent_reserve_in.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/mpath_persistent_reserve_out.3.gz
/usr/include/mpath_cmd.h
/usr/include/mpath_persist.h
/usr/lib64/libmpathcmd.so
/usr/lib64/libmpathpersist.so
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel/GPL-2.0
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel/LGPL-2.0
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel/README
/usr/share/man/man3/mpath_persistent_reserve_in.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/mpath_persistent_reserve_out.3.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-multipath-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
