How To Install decnumber-devel on CentOS 8

decnumber-devel is Development files for decnumber

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.