How To Install hidapi on CentOS 8

hidapi is Library for communicating with USB and Bluetooth HID devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hidapi on CentOS 8.

What is hidapi

HIDAPI is a multi-platform library which allows an application to interface with USB and Bluetooth HID-class devices on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. On Linux, either the hidraw or the libusb back-end can be used. There are trade-offs and the functionality supported is slightly different.

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

Install hidapi 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 hidapi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hidapi

Install hidapi 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 hidapi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hidapi

How To Uninstall hidapi on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the hidapi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove hidapi

hidapi Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/927a7e0b76c0a17bd74b9f40934d29f30dc66f
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/67d36a4c46e4c51dc25d154fb31502dafeb050
/usr/lib64/libhidapi-hidraw.so.0
/usr/lib64/libhidapi-hidraw.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libhidapi-libusb.so.0
/usr/lib64/libhidapi-libusb.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/hidapi
/usr/share/doc/hidapi/AUTHORS.txt
/usr/share/doc/hidapi/LICENSE-bsd.txt
/usr/share/doc/hidapi/LICENSE-gpl3.txt
/usr/share/doc/hidapi/LICENSE-orig.txt
/usr/share/doc/hidapi/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/doc/hidapi/README.md

References

Summary

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