How To Install hivex-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install hivex-devel on Rocky Linux 8. hivex-devel is Development tools and libraries for hivex

Introduction

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

What is hivex-devel

hivex-devel contains development tools and libraries for hivex.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install hivex-devel

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

sudo yum -y install hivex-devel

How To Uninstall hivex-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove hivex-devel

hivex-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/hivex.h
/usr/lib64/libhivex.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/hivex.pc
/usr/share/doc/hivex-devel
/usr/share/doc/hivex-devel/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man3/hivex.3.gz

References

Summary

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