How To Install ganglia-devel on CentOS 8

ganglia-devel is Ganglia Library

Introduction

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

What is ganglia-devel

The Ganglia Monitoring Core library provides a set of functions that programmers can use to build scalable cluster or grid applications

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

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

sudo dnf -y install ganglia-devel

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

sudo yum -y install ganglia-devel

How To Uninstall ganglia-devel on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove ganglia-devel

ganglia-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/ganglia-config
/usr/include/ganglia.h
/usr/include/ganglia_gexec.h
/usr/include/gm_file.h
/usr/include/gm_metric.h
/usr/include/gm_mmn.h
/usr/include/gm_msg.h
/usr/include/gm_protocol.h
/usr/include/gm_value.h
/usr/lib64/libganglia.so

References

Summary

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