How To Install librx-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install librx-devel on Rocky Linux 8. librx-devel is POSIX regexp functions, developers library

Introduction

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

What is librx-devel

Rx is, among other things, an implementation of the interface specified by POSIX for programming with regular expressions. Some other implementations are GNU regex.c and Henry Spencer’s regex library. This package contains files needed for development with librx.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install librx-devel

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

sudo yum -y install librx-devel

How To Uninstall librx-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove librx-devel

librx-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/rxposix.h
/usr/lib/librx.so
/usr/share/doc/librx-devel
/usr/share/doc/librx-devel/ANNOUNCE
/usr/share/doc/librx-devel/BUILDING
/usr/share/doc/librx-devel/COOKOFF
/usr/share/doc/librx-devel/ChangeLog
/usr/share/info/rx.info.gz
/usr/include/rxposix.h
/usr/lib64/librx.so
/usr/share/doc/librx-devel
/usr/share/doc/librx-devel/ANNOUNCE
/usr/share/doc/librx-devel/BUILDING
/usr/share/doc/librx-devel/COOKOFF
/usr/share/doc/librx-devel/ChangeLog
/usr/share/info/rx.info.gz

References

Summary

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