How To Install btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 is btrfs filesystem-specific libraries and headers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64

btrfs-progs-devel contains the libraries and header files needed to develop btrfs filesystem-specific programs. You should install btrfs-progs-devel if you want to develop btrfs filesystem-specific programs.

We can use yum to install btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64.

Install btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64

btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/btrfs
/usr/include/btrfs/btrfs-list.h
/usr/include/btrfs/btrfsck.h
/usr/include/btrfs/crc32c.h
/usr/include/btrfs/ctree.h
/usr/include/btrfs/extent-cache.h
/usr/include/btrfs/extent_io.h
/usr/include/btrfs/ioctl.h
/usr/include/btrfs/kerncompat.h
/usr/include/btrfs/list.h
/usr/include/btrfs/radix-tree.h
/usr/include/btrfs/raid56.h
/usr/include/btrfs/rbtree.h
/usr/include/btrfs/send-stream.h
/usr/include/btrfs/send-utils.h
/usr/include/btrfs/send.h
/usr/include/btrfs/sizes.h
/usr/include/btrfs/version.h
/usr/lib64/libbtrfs.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install btrfs-progs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.