How To Install protobuf-lite-devel on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-lite-devel
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is protobuf-lite-devel
This package contains development libraries built with optimize_for = LITE_RUNTIME. The “optimize_for = LITE_RUNTIME” option causes the compiler to generate code which only depends libprotobuf-lite, which is much smaller than libprotobuf but lacks descriptors, reflection, and some other features.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install protobuf-lite-devel
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install protobuf-lite-devel.
Install protobuf-lite-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 protobuf-lite-devel
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install protobuf-lite-devel
Install protobuf-lite-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 protobuf-lite-devel
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install protobuf-lite-devel
How To Uninstall protobuf-lite-devel on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the protobuf-lite-devel
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove protobuf-lite-devel
protobuf-lite-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/libprotobuf-lite.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/protobuf-lite.pc
/usr/lib64/libprotobuf-lite.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/protobuf-lite.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install protobuf-lite-devel
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.