How To Install e2fsprogs-devel on CentOS 8

e2fsprogs-devel is Ext2/3/4 file system specific libraries and headers Ext2/3/4 file system specific libraries and headers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install e2fsprogs-devel on CentOS 8.

What is e2fsprogs-devel

E2fsprogs-devel contains the libraries and header files needed to develop second, third and fourth extended (ext2/ext3/ext4) file system specific programs. You should install e2fsprogs-devel if you want to develop ext2/3/4 file system specific programs. If you install e2fsprogs-devel, you’ll also want to install e2fsprogs. e2fsprogs-devel 1.45.6 1.el8 x86_64 84 k e2fsprogs-1.45.6-1.el8.src.rpm baseos Ext2/3/4 file system specific libraries and headers http GPLv2 and LGPLv2 E2fsprogs-devel contains the libraries and header files needed to develop second, third and fourth extended (ext2/ext3/ext4) file system specific programs. You should install e2fsprogs-devel if you want to develop ext2/3/4 file system specific programs. If you install e2fsprogs-devel, you’ll also want to install e2fsprogs.

We can use yum or dnf to install e2fsprogs-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install e2fsprogs-devel.

Install e2fsprogs-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 e2fsprogs-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install e2fsprogs-devel

Install e2fsprogs-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 e2fsprogs-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install e2fsprogs-devel

How To Uninstall e2fsprogs-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the e2fsprogs-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove e2fsprogs-devel

e2fsprogs-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/e2p
/usr/include/e2p/e2p.h
/usr/include/ext2fs
/usr/include/ext2fs/bitops.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_err.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_ext_attr.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_io.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_types-i386.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_types.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2fs.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext3_extents.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/hashmap.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/qcow2.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/tdb.h
/usr/lib/libe2p.so
/usr/lib/libext2fs.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/e2p.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ext2fs.pc
/usr/share/info/libext2fs.info.gz
/usr/include/e2p
/usr/include/e2p/e2p.h
/usr/include/ext2fs
/usr/include/ext2fs/bitops.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_err.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_ext_attr.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_io.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_types-x86_64.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_types.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext2fs.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/ext3_extents.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/hashmap.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/qcow2.h
/usr/include/ext2fs/tdb.h
/usr/lib64/libe2p.so
/usr/lib64/libext2fs.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/e2p.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ext2fs.pc
/usr/share/info/libext2fs.info.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install e2fsprogs-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.