How To Install highway-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

Introduction

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

What is highway-devel

Highway is a C++ library for SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data), i.e. applying the same operation to ’lanes’. Development files for Highway.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install highway-devel

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

sudo yum -y install highway-devel

How To Uninstall highway-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove highway-devel

highway-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/hwy
/usr/include/hwy/aligned_allocator.h
/usr/include/hwy/base.h
/usr/include/hwy/cache_control.h
/usr/include/hwy/contrib
/usr/include/hwy/contrib/image
/usr/include/hwy/contrib/image/image.h
/usr/include/hwy/contrib/math
/usr/include/hwy/contrib/math/math-inl.h
/usr/include/hwy/foreach_target.h
/usr/include/hwy/highway.h
/usr/include/hwy/nanobenchmark.h
/usr/include/hwy/ops
/usr/include/hwy/ops/arm_neon-inl.h
/usr/include/hwy/ops/arm_sve-inl.h
/usr/include/hwy/ops/scalar-inl.h
/usr/include/hwy/ops/set_macros-inl.h
/usr/include/hwy/ops/shared-inl.h
/usr/include/hwy/ops/wasm_128-inl.h
/usr/include/hwy/ops/x86_128-inl.h
/usr/include/hwy/ops/x86_256-inl.h
/usr/include/hwy/ops/x86_512-inl.h
/usr/include/hwy/targets.h
/usr/include/hwy/tests
/usr/include/hwy/tests/test_util-inl.h
/usr/lib64/libhwy.a
/usr/lib64/libhwy_contrib.a
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libhwy-contrib.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libhwy-test.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libhwy.pc
/usr/share/licenses/highway-devel
/usr/share/licenses/highway-devel/LICENSE

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Summary

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