How To Install cfitsio-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cfitsio-devel on CentOS 8.
What is cfitsio-devel
Headers required when building a program against the cfitsio library.
We can use yum or dnf to install cfitsio-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cfitsio-devel.
Install cfitsio-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 cfitsio-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cfitsio-devel
Install cfitsio-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 cfitsio-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cfitsio-devel
How To Uninstall cfitsio-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cfitsio-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cfitsio-devel
cfitsio-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/cfitsio
/usr/include/cfitsio/drvrsmem.h
/usr/include/cfitsio/fitsio.h
/usr/include/cfitsio/fitsio2.h
/usr/include/cfitsio/longnam.h
/usr/lib64/libcfitsio.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/cfitsio.pc
/usr/share/doc/cfitsio-devel
/usr/share/doc/cfitsio-devel/cookbook.c
/usr/share/doc/cfitsio-devel/cookbook.f
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cfitsio-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.