How To Install Thunar-devel on CentOS 8

Thunar-devel is Development tools for Thunar file manager

Introduction

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

What is Thunar-devel

libraries and header files for the Thunar file manager.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install Thunar-devel

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

sudo yum -y install Thunar-devel

How To Uninstall Thunar-devel on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove Thunar-devel

Thunar-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/thunarx-3
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-config.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-file-info.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-menu-item.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-menu-provider.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-menu.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-preferences-provider.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-property-page-provider.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-property-page.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-provider-factory.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-provider-module.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-provider-plugin.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-renamer-provider.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx-renamer.h
/usr/include/thunarx-3/thunarx/thunarx.h
/usr/lib64/libthunarx-3.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/thunarx-3.pc
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples/Makefile.am
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples/Makefile.in
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples/nautilus-bulk-rename.py
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples/tex-open-terminal
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples/tex-open-terminal/Makefile.am
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples/tex-open-terminal/Makefile.in
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples/tex-open-terminal/README
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples/tex-open-terminal/tex-open-terminal-plugin.c
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples/tex-open-terminal/tex-open-terminal.c
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples/tex-open-terminal/tex-open-terminal.h
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples/thunar-file-manager.py
/usr/share/doc/Thunar-devel/examples/xfce-file-manager.py
/usr/share/gir-1.0/Thunarx-3.0.gir

References

Summary

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