How To Install boost-nowide-devel on CentOS 8

boost-nowide-devel is The header files to compile against boost.nowide

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-nowide-devel on CentOS 8.

What is boost-nowide-devel

Development files for building against boost-nowide

We can use yum or dnf to install boost-nowide-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install boost-nowide-devel.

Install boost-nowide-devel on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install boost-nowide-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install boost-nowide-devel

Install boost-nowide-devel on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install boost-nowide-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install boost-nowide-devel

How To Uninstall boost-nowide-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the boost-nowide-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove boost-nowide-devel

boost-nowide-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/boost/nowide
/usr/include/boost/nowide/args.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/cenv.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/config.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/convert.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/cstdio.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/cstdlib.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/filebuf.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/fstream.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/integration
/usr/include/boost/nowide/integration/filesystem.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/iostream.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/stackstring.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/system.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/utf8_codecvt.hpp
/usr/include/boost/nowide/windows.hpp

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install boost-nowide-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.