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

In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcp-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dhcp-devel.x86_64 is Development headers and libraries for interfacing to the DHCP

Introduction

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

What is `dhcp-devel.x86_64`

Header files and API documentation for using the ISC DHCP libraries. The libdhcpctl and libomapi static libraries are also included in this package.

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

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

sudo yum -y install dhcp-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove dhcp-devel.x86_64

dhcp-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/dhcpctl
/usr/include/dhcpctl/dhcpctl.h
/usr/include/omapip
/usr/include/omapip/alloc.h
/usr/include/omapip/buffer.h
/usr/include/omapip/convert.h
/usr/include/omapip/hash.h
/usr/include/omapip/isclib.h
/usr/include/omapip/omapip.h
/usr/include/omapip/omapip_p.h
/usr/include/omapip/result.h
/usr/include/omapip/trace.h
/usr/lib64/libdhcpctl.so
/usr/lib64/libomapi.so
/usr/share/doc/dhcp-devel-4.2.5
/usr/share/doc/dhcp-devel-4.2.5/IANA-arp-parameters
/usr/share/doc/dhcp-devel-4.2.5/api+protocol
/usr/share/man/man3/dhcpctl.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/omapi.3.gz

References

dhcp-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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