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

In this tutorial we learn how to install xfsprogs-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. xfsprogs-devel.x86_64 is XFS filesystem-specific headers

Introduction

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

What is xfsprogs-devel.x86_64

xfsprogs-devel contains the header files needed to develop XFS filesystem-specific programs. You should install xfsprogs-devel if you want to develop XFS filesystem-specific programs, If you install xfsprogs-devel, you’ll also want to install xfsprogs.

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

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

sudo yum -y install xfsprogs-devel.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove xfsprogs-devel.x86_64

xfsprogs-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/xfs
/usr/include/xfs/handle.h
/usr/include/xfs/jdm.h
/usr/include/xfs/linux.h
/usr/include/xfs/xfs.h
/usr/include/xfs/xfs_arch.h
/usr/include/xfs/xfs_da_format.h
/usr/include/xfs/xfs_format.h
/usr/include/xfs/xfs_fs.h
/usr/include/xfs/xfs_log_format.h
/usr/include/xfs/xfs_types.h
/usr/include/xfs/xqm.h
/usr/lib64/libhandle.so
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_list_by_handle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_multi_by_handle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/fd_to_handle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/free_handle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/fssetdm_by_handle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/getparentpaths_by_handle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/getparents_by_handle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/handle_to_fshandle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/open_by_handle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/path_to_fshandle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/path_to_handle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/readlink_by_handle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/xfsctl.3.gz

References

Summary

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