How To Install compat-lua-devel on CentOS 8

compat-lua-devel is Development files for compat-lua

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-lua-devel on CentOS 8.

What is compat-lua-devel

This package contains development files for compat-lua-libs.

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

Install compat-lua-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 compat-lua-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install compat-lua-devel

Install compat-lua-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 compat-lua-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install compat-lua-devel

How To Uninstall compat-lua-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the compat-lua-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove compat-lua-devel

compat-lua-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/lua-5.1
/usr/include/lua-5.1/lauxlib.h
/usr/include/lua-5.1/lua.h
/usr/include/lua-5.1/lua.hpp
/usr/include/lua-5.1/luaconf.h
/usr/include/lua-5.1/lualib.h
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/lua-5.1.pc

References

Summary

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