How To Install fswatch-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fswatch-devel on Rocky Linux 8. fswatch-devel is Development files for fswatch

Introduction

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

What is fswatch-devel

The fswatch-devel package contains libraries and headers for libfswatch.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install fswatch-devel

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

sudo yum -y install fswatch-devel

How To Uninstall fswatch-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove fswatch-devel

fswatch-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/libfswatch/c
/usr/include/libfswatch/c++
/usr/include/libfswatch/c++/event.hpp
/usr/include/libfswatch/c++/filter.hpp
/usr/include/libfswatch/c++/inotify_monitor.hpp
/usr/include/libfswatch/c++/libfswatch_exception.hpp
/usr/include/libfswatch/c++/libfswatch_map.hpp
/usr/include/libfswatch/c++/libfswatch_set.hpp
/usr/include/libfswatch/c++/monitor.hpp
/usr/include/libfswatch/c++/monitor_factory.hpp
/usr/include/libfswatch/c++/path_utils.hpp
/usr/include/libfswatch/c++/poll_monitor.hpp
/usr/include/libfswatch/c++/string_utils.hpp
/usr/include/libfswatch/c/cevent.h
/usr/include/libfswatch/c/cfilter.h
/usr/include/libfswatch/c/cmonitor.h
/usr/include/libfswatch/c/error.h
/usr/include/libfswatch/c/libfswatch.h
/usr/include/libfswatch/c/libfswatch_log.h
/usr/include/libfswatch/c/libfswatch_types.h
/usr/lib64/libfswatch.so
/usr/share/doc/fswatch-devel
/usr/share/doc/fswatch-devel/AUTHORS.libfswatch
/usr/share/doc/fswatch-devel/NEWS.libfswatch
/usr/share/doc/fswatch-devel/README.libfswatch.md

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Summary

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