How To Install RdRand-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install RdRand-devel on CentOS 8.
What is RdRand-devel
Headers and shared object symbolic links for the RdRand.
We can use yum or dnf to install RdRand-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install RdRand-devel.
Install RdRand-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 RdRand-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install RdRand-devel
Install RdRand-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 RdRand-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install RdRand-devel
How To Uninstall RdRand-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the RdRand-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove RdRand-devel
RdRand-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/librdrand-aes.h
/usr/include/librdrand.h
/usr/lib64/librdrand.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/librdrand.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/librdrand.3.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install RdRand-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.