How To Install device-mapper-multipath-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-multipath-devel on CentOS 8.
What is device-mapper-multipath-devel
This package contains the files need to develop applications that use device-mapper-multipath’s lbmpathpersist and libmpathcmd libraries. device-mapper-multipath-devel 0.8.4 10.el8 x86_64 97 k device-mapper-multipath-0.8.4-10.el8.src.rpm powertools Development libraries and headers for device-mapper-multipath http GPLv2 This package contains the files need to develop applications that use device-mapper-multipath’s lbmpathpersist and libmpathcmd libraries.
We can use yum or dnf to install device-mapper-multipath-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install device-mapper-multipath-devel.
Install device-mapper-multipath-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-multipath-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install device-mapper-multipath-devel
Install device-mapper-multipath-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-multipath-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install device-mapper-multipath-devel
How To Uninstall device-mapper-multipath-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the device-mapper-multipath-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove device-mapper-multipath-devel
device-mapper-multipath-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/mpath_cmd.h
/usr/include/mpath_persist.h
/usr/lib/libmpathcmd.so
/usr/lib/libmpathpersist.so
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel/GPL-2.0
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel/LGPL-2.0
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel/README
/usr/share/man/man3/mpath_persistent_reserve_in.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/mpath_persistent_reserve_out.3.gz
/usr/include/mpath_cmd.h
/usr/include/mpath_persist.h
/usr/lib64/libmpathcmd.so
/usr/lib64/libmpathpersist.so
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel/GPL-2.0
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel/LGPL-2.0
/usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-devel/README
/usr/share/man/man3/mpath_persistent_reserve_in.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/mpath_persistent_reserve_out.3.gz
References
- [device-mapper-multipath-devel website](http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/ http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-multipath-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.