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

device-mapper-event-libs is Device-mapper event daemon shared library Device-mapper event daemon shared library

Introduction

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

What is device-mapper-event-libs

This package contains the device-mapper event daemon shared library, libdevmapper-event. device-mapper-event-libs 8 1.02.175 5.el8 x86_64 269 k lvm2-2.03.11-5.el8.src.rpm baseos Device-mapper event daemon shared library http LGPLv2 This package contains the device-mapper event daemon shared library, libdevmapper-event.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

sudo dnf remove device-mapper-event-libs

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

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/6598f920b06b78eeaf43bcc5d2d44136bd4a3d
/usr/lib64/libdevmapper-event.so.1.02
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-event-libs
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-event-libs/COPYING.LIB
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/1483f9c72bdcb0cd27123249c98f60441e53e6
/usr/lib/libdevmapper-event.so.1.02
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-event-libs
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-event-libs/COPYING.LIB

References

Summary

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