How To Install iptables-devel on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iptables-devel on Rocky Linux 8.
What is iptables-devel
iptables development headers and libraries. The iptc libraries are marked as not public by upstream. The interface is not stable and may change with every new version. It is therefore unsupported.
We can use yum or dnf to install iptables-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iptables-devel.
Install iptables-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 iptables-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install iptables-devel
Install iptables-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 iptables-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install iptables-devel
How To Uninstall iptables-devel on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the iptables-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove iptables-devel
iptables-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/include/ip6tables.h
/usr/include/iptables
/usr/include/iptables.h
/usr/include/iptables/internal.h
/usr/include/libiptc
/usr/include/libiptc/ipt_kernel_headers.h
/usr/include/libiptc/libip6tc.h
/usr/include/libiptc/libiptc.h
/usr/include/libiptc/libxtc.h
/usr/include/libiptc/xtcshared.h
/usr/include/libipulog
/usr/include/libipulog/libipulog.h
/usr/include/xtables-version.h
/usr/include/xtables.h
/usr/lib/libip4tc.so
/usr/lib/libip6tc.so
/usr/lib/libxtables.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libip4tc.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libip6tc.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libiptc.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xtables.pc
/usr/include/ip6tables.h
/usr/include/iptables
/usr/include/iptables.h
/usr/include/iptables/internal.h
/usr/include/libiptc
/usr/include/libiptc/ipt_kernel_headers.h
/usr/include/libiptc/libip6tc.h
/usr/include/libiptc/libiptc.h
/usr/include/libiptc/libxtc.h
/usr/include/libiptc/xtcshared.h
/usr/include/libipulog
/usr/include/libipulog/libipulog.h
/usr/include/xtables-version.h
/usr/include/xtables.h
/usr/lib64/libip4tc.so
/usr/lib64/libip6tc.so
/usr/lib64/libxtables.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libip4tc.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libip6tc.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libiptc.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xtables.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iptables-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
