How To Install upower-devel on CentOS 8

upower-devel is Headers and libraries for UPower Headers and libraries for UPower

Introduction

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

What is upower-devel

Headers and libraries for UPower. upower-devel 0.99.7 3.el8 x86_64 33 k upower-0.99.7-3.el8.src.rpm powertools Headers and libraries for UPower http GPLv2+ Headers and libraries for UPower.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install upower-devel

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

sudo yum -y install upower-devel

How To Uninstall upower-devel on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove upower-devel

upower-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/libupower-glib
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-autocleanups.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-client.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-device.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-history-item.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-stats-item.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-types.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-version.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-wakeup-item.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-wakeups.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/upower.h
/usr/lib/libupower-glib.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/upower-glib.pc
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.UPower.Device.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.UPower.KbdBacklight.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.UPower.Wakeups.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.UPower.xml
/usr/share/gir-1.0/UPowerGlib-1.0.gir
/usr/include/libupower-glib
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-autocleanups.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-client.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-device.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-history-item.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-stats-item.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-types.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-version.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-wakeup-item.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/up-wakeups.h
/usr/include/libupower-glib/upower.h
/usr/lib64/libupower-glib.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/upower-glib.pc
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.UPower.Device.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.UPower.KbdBacklight.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.UPower.Wakeups.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.UPower.xml
/usr/share/gir-1.0/UPowerGlib-1.0.gir

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Summary

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