How To Install daxctl-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install daxctl-devel on CentOS 8.
What is daxctl-devel
The ndctl-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use ndctl, a library for enumerating “Device DAX” devices. Device DAX is a facility for establishing DAX mappings of performance / feature-differentiated memory. daxctl-devel 71.1 2.el8 x86_64 22 k ndctl-71.1-2.el8.src.rpm appstream Development files for libdaxctl https LGPLv2 The ndctl-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use ndctl, a library for enumerating “Device DAX” devices. Device DAX is a facility for establishing DAX mappings of performance / feature-differentiated memory.
We can use yum or dnf to install daxctl-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install daxctl-devel.
Install daxctl-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 daxctl-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install daxctl-devel
Install daxctl-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 daxctl-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install daxctl-devel
How To Uninstall daxctl-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the daxctl-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove daxctl-devel
daxctl-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/daxctl
/usr/include/daxctl/libdaxctl.h
/usr/lib/libdaxctl.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libdaxctl.pc
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-devel
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-devel/LGPL-2.1
/usr/include/daxctl
/usr/include/daxctl/libdaxctl.h
/usr/lib64/libdaxctl.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libdaxctl.pc
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-devel
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl-devel/LGPL-2.1
References
- [daxctl-devel website](https://github.com/pmem/ndctl https://github.com/pmem/ndctl)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install daxctl-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.