How To Install facter-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install facter-devel on Rocky Linux 8. facter-devel is Development libraries for building against facter

Introduction

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

What is facter-devel

The headers to link against libfacter in other applications.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install facter-devel

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

sudo yum -y install facter-devel

How To Uninstall facter-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove facter-devel

facter-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/facter
/usr/include/facter/cwrapper.hpp
/usr/include/facter/export.h
/usr/include/facter/facts
/usr/include/facter/facts/array_value.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/collection.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/external
/usr/include/facter/facts/external/resolver.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/fact.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/map_value.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/os.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/os_family.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/resolver.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/scalar_value.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/value.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/vm.hpp
/usr/include/facter/logging
/usr/include/facter/logging/logging.hpp
/usr/include/facter/ruby
/usr/include/facter/ruby/ruby.hpp
/usr/include/facter/util
/usr/include/facter/util/config.hpp
/usr/include/facter/util/string.hpp
/usr/include/facter/version.h

References

Summary

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