How To Install device-mapper-event-devel on CentOS 8

device-mapper-event-devel is Development libraries and headers for the device-mapper event daemon Development libraries and headers for the device-mapper event daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-event-devel on CentOS 8.

What is device-mapper-event-devel

This package contains files needed to develop applications that use the device-mapper event library. device-mapper-event-devel 8 1.02.175 5.el8 x86_64 250 k lvm2-2.03.11-5.el8.src.rpm powertools Development libraries and headers for the device-mapper event daemon http LGPLv2 This package contains files needed to develop applications that use the device-mapper event library.

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

Install device-mapper-event-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 device-mapper-event-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install device-mapper-event-devel

Install device-mapper-event-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 device-mapper-event-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install device-mapper-event-devel

How To Uninstall device-mapper-event-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the device-mapper-event-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove device-mapper-event-devel

device-mapper-event-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/libdevmapper-event.h
/usr/lib/libdevmapper-event.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/devmapper-event.pc
/usr/include/libdevmapper-event.h
/usr/lib64/libdevmapper-event.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/devmapper-event.pc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-event-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.