How To Install vala-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vala-devel on CentOS 8.
What is vala-devel
Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C. This package contains development files for vala. This is not necessary for using the vala compiler. vala-devel 0.40.19 2.el8 x86_64 63 k vala-0.40.19-2.el8.src.rpm powertools Development files for vala https LGPLv2+ and BSD Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C. This package contains development files for vala. This is not necessary for using the vala compiler.
We can use yum or dnf to install vala-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vala-devel.
Install vala-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 vala-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vala-devel
Install vala-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 vala-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vala-devel
How To Uninstall vala-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the vala-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vala-devel
vala-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/vala-0.40
/usr/include/vala-0.40/vala.h
/usr/include/vala-0.40/valagee.h
/usr/lib/libvala-0.40.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libvala-0.40.pc
/usr/include/vala-0.40
/usr/include/vala-0.40/vala.h
/usr/include/vala-0.40/valagee.h
/usr/lib64/libvala-0.40.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libvala-0.40.pc
References
- [vala-devel website](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vala-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.