How To Install flex-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install flex-devel on Rocky Linux 8. flex-devel is Libraries for flex scanner generator

Introduction

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

What is flex-devel

This package contains the library with default implementations of main' and yywrap’ functions that the client binary can choose to use instead of implementing their own.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install flex-devel

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

sudo yum -y install flex-devel

How To Uninstall flex-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove flex-devel

flex-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/libfl.a
/usr/lib/libfl_pic.a
/usr/lib/libl.a
/usr/share/doc/flex
/usr/share/licenses/flex-devel
/usr/share/licenses/flex-devel/COPYING
/usr/lib64/libfl.a
/usr/lib64/libfl_pic.a
/usr/lib64/libl.a
/usr/share/doc/flex
/usr/share/licenses/flex-devel
/usr/share/licenses/flex-devel/COPYING

References

Summary

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