How To Install radcli-compat-devel on CentOS 8

radcli-compat-devel is Development files for compatibility with radiusclient-ng and freeradius-client

Introduction

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

What is radcli-compat-devel

This package contains the compatibility headers and libraries for freeradius-client and radiusclient-ng.

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

Install radcli-compat-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 radcli-compat-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install radcli-compat-devel

Install radcli-compat-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 radcli-compat-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install radcli-compat-devel

How To Uninstall radcli-compat-devel on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove radcli-compat-devel

radcli-compat-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/freeradius-client.h
/usr/include/radiusclient-ng.h
/usr/lib64/libfreeradius-client.so
/usr/lib64/libradiusclient-ng.so

References

Summary

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