How To Install re2-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install re2-devel on CentOS 8.
What is re2-devel
This package contains the C++ header files and symbolic links to the shared libraries for re2. If you would like to develop programs using re2, you will need to install re2-devel.
We can use yum or dnf to install re2-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install re2-devel.
Install re2-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 re2-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install re2-devel
Install re2-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 re2-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install re2-devel
How To Uninstall re2-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the re2-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove re2-devel
re2-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/re2
/usr/include/re2/filtered_re2.h
/usr/include/re2/re2.h
/usr/include/re2/set.h
/usr/include/re2/stringpiece.h
/usr/lib64/libre2.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/re2.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install re2-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
