How To Install libgpg-error-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgpg-error-devel on Rocky Linux 8. libgpg-error-devel is Development files for the libgpg-error package

Introduction

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

What is `libgpg-error-devel`

This is a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components. Among these are GPG, GPGSM, GPGME, GPG-Agent, libgcrypt, pinentry, SmartCard Daemon and possibly more in the future. This package contains files necessary to develop applications using libgpg-error.

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

Install libgpg-error-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 libgpg-error-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libgpg-error-devel

Install libgpg-error-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 libgpg-error-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgpg-error-devel

How To Uninstall libgpg-error-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libgpg-error-devel

libgpg-error-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/gpg-error-config
/usr/bin/gpgrt-config
/usr/bin/yat2m
/usr/include/gpg-error.h
/usr/include/gpgrt.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/b2e194a3f5609d9c1c6722dff710158eaba265
/usr/lib64/libgpg-error.so
/usr/share/aclocal/gpg-error.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/gpgrt.m4
/usr/share/info/gpgrt.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gpg-error-config.1.gz
/usr/bin/gpg-error-config
/usr/bin/gpgrt-config
/usr/bin/yat2m
/usr/include/gpg-error.h
/usr/include/gpgrt.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/9f8d4200ff07c8d68fb2d238c1956893a51e3f
/usr/lib/libgpg-error.so
/usr/share/aclocal/gpg-error.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/gpgrt.m4
/usr/share/info/gpgrt.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gpg-error-config.1.gz

References

libgpg-error-devel website

Summary

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