How To Install quota-devel on CentOS 8

quota-devel is Development files for quota RPC Development files for quota RPC

Introduction

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

What is quota-devel

This package contains development header files for implementing disk quotas on remote machines. quota-devel 1 4.04 12.el8 x86_64 36 k quota-4.04-12.el8.src.rpm powertools Development files for quota RPC http GPLv2 This package contains development header files for implementing disk quotas on remote machines.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install quota-devel

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

sudo yum -y install quota-devel

How To Uninstall quota-devel on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove quota-devel

quota-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/rpcsvc
/usr/include/rpcsvc/rquota.h
/usr/include/rpcsvc/rquota.x
/usr/share/licenses/quota-devel
/usr/share/licenses/quota-devel/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man3/rquota.3.gz

References

Summary

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