How To Install inotify-tools-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install inotify-tools-devel on Rocky Linux 8. inotify-tools-devel is Headers and libraries for building apps that use libinotifytools

Introduction

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

What is inotify-tools-devel

This package contains headers and libraries required to build applications that use the libinotifytools library.

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

Install inotify-tools-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 inotify-tools-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install inotify-tools-devel

Install inotify-tools-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 inotify-tools-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install inotify-tools-devel

How To Uninstall inotify-tools-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove inotify-tools-devel

inotify-tools-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/inotifytools
/usr/include/inotifytools/inotify-nosys.h
/usr/include/inotifytools/inotify.h
/usr/include/inotifytools/inotifytools.h
/usr/lib64/libinotifytools.so
/usr/share/doc/inotify-tools-devel
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/usr/share/doc/inotify-tools-devel/globals.html
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/usr/share/doc/inotify-tools-devel/index.html
/usr/share/doc/inotify-tools-devel/inotifytools_8c_source.html
/usr/share/doc/inotify-tools-devel/inotifytools_8h.html
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Summary

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