How To Install decnumber-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install decnumber-devel on CentOS 8.
What is decnumber-devel
The decNumber library implements the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification in ANSI C. This specification defines a decimal arithmetic which meets the requirements of commercial, financial, and human-oriented applications. It also matches the decimal arithmetic in the IEEE 754 Standard for Floating Point Arithmetic. The library fully implements the specification, and hence supports integer, fixed-point, and floating-point decimal numbers directly, including infinite, NaN (Not a Number), and subnormal values. Both arbitrary-precision and fixed-size representations are supported. The decnumber-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use decnumber.
We can use yum or dnf to install decnumber-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install decnumber-devel.
Install decnumber-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 decnumber-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install decnumber-devel
Install decnumber-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 decnumber-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install decnumber-devel
How To Uninstall decnumber-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the decnumber-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove decnumber-devel
decnumber-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/decContext.h
/usr/include/decNumber.h
/usr/include/decPacked.h
/usr/include/decQuad.h
/usr/include/decimal128.h
/usr/include/decimal32.h
/usr/include/decimal64.h
/usr/include/decnumber_version.h
/usr/lib64/libdecNumber64.a
/usr/share/doc/decnumber-devel
/usr/share/doc/decnumber-devel/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/decnumber-devel
/usr/share/licenses/decnumber-devel/decnumber.ICU-license.html
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install decnumber-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.