How To Install cairo-gobject-devel on CentOS 8

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cairo-gobject-devel on CentOS 8.

What is cairo-gobject-devel

Cairo is a 2D graphics library designed to provide high-quality display and print output. This package contains libraries, header files and developer documentation needed for developing software which uses the cairo Gobject library. cairo-gobject-devel 1.15.12 3.el8 x86_64 26 k cairo-1.15.12-3.el8.src.rpm appstream Development files for cairo-gobject http LGPLv2 or MPLv1.1 Cairo is a 2D graphics library designed to provide high-quality display and print output. This package contains libraries, header files and developer documentation needed for developing software which uses the cairo Gobject library.

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

Install cairo-gobject-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 cairo-gobject-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cairo-gobject-devel

Install cairo-gobject-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 cairo-gobject-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cairo-gobject-devel

How To Uninstall cairo-gobject-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cairo-gobject-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cairo-gobject-devel

cairo-gobject-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/cairo/cairo-gobject.h
/usr/lib/libcairo-gobject.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/cairo-gobject.pc
/usr/include/cairo/cairo-gobject.h
/usr/lib64/libcairo-gobject.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/cairo-gobject.pc

References

Summary

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