How To Install facter-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install facter-devel on CentOS 8.
What is facter-devel
The headers to link against libfacter in other applications.
We can use yum or dnf to install facter-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install facter-devel.
Install facter-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 facter-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install facter-devel
Install facter-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 facter-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install facter-devel
How To Uninstall facter-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the facter-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove facter-devel
facter-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/facter
/usr/include/facter/cwrapper.hpp
/usr/include/facter/export.h
/usr/include/facter/facts
/usr/include/facter/facts/array_value.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/collection.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/external
/usr/include/facter/facts/external/resolver.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/fact.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/map_value.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/os.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/os_family.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/resolver.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/scalar_value.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/value.hpp
/usr/include/facter/facts/vm.hpp
/usr/include/facter/logging
/usr/include/facter/logging/logging.hpp
/usr/include/facter/ruby
/usr/include/facter/ruby/ruby.hpp
/usr/include/facter/util
/usr/include/facter/util/config.hpp
/usr/include/facter/util/string.hpp
/usr/include/facter/version.h
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install facter-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.