How To Install libdb-cxx-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdb-cxx-devel on Rocky Linux 8. libdb-cxx-devel is The Berkeley DB database library for C++

Introduction

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

What is libdb-cxx-devel

The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, and database recovery. The Berkeley DB supports C, C++, Java, and Perl APIs. It is used by many applications, including Python and Perl, so this should be installed on all systems.

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

Install libdb-cxx-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 libdb-cxx-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libdb-cxx-devel

Install libdb-cxx-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 libdb-cxx-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libdb-cxx-devel

How To Uninstall libdb-cxx-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libdb-cxx-devel

libdb-cxx-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/db_cxx.h
/usr/include/libdb/db_cxx.h
/usr/lib/libdb_cxx.so
/usr/include/db_cxx.h
/usr/include/libdb/db_cxx.h
/usr/lib64/libdb_cxx.so

References

Summary

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