How To Install clamav-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-devel on CentOS 8.
What is clamav-devel
This package contains headerfiles and libraries which are needed to build applications using clamav.
We can use yum or dnf to install clamav-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clamav-devel.
Install clamav-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 clamav-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clamav-devel
Install clamav-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 clamav-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clamav-devel
How To Uninstall clamav-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the clamav-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clamav-devel
clamav-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/clamav-config
/usr/include/clamav-types.h
/usr/include/clamav-version.h
/usr/include/clamav.h
/usr/include/libfreshclam.h
/usr/lib64/libclamav.so
/usr/lib64/libclammspack.so
/usr/lib64/libfreshclam.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libclamav.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.