How To Install daxctl-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install daxctl-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. daxctl-devel.x86_64 is Development files for libdaxctl

Introduction

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

What is daxctl-devel.x86_64

The ndctl-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use ndctl, a library for enumerating “Device DAX” devices. Device DAX is a facility for establishing DAX mappings of performance / feature-differentiated memory.

We can use yum to install daxctl-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 daxctl-devel.x86_64.

Install daxctl-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 daxctl-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install daxctl-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall daxctl-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove daxctl-devel.x86_64

daxctl-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/daxctl
/usr/include/daxctl/libdaxctl.h
/usr/lib64/libdaxctl.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libdaxctl.pc
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-devel-64.1
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-devel-64.1/COPYING

References

Summary

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