How To Install varnish-devel on CentOS 8

varnish-devel is Development files for varnish

Introduction

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

What is varnish-devel

Development files for varnish Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP accelerator

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

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

sudo dnf -y install varnish-devel

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

sudo yum -y install varnish-devel

How To Uninstall varnish-devel on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove varnish-devel

varnish-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/varnish
/usr/include/varnish/cache
/usr/include/varnish/cache/cache.h
/usr/include/varnish/cache/cache_backend.h
/usr/include/varnish/cache/cache_director.h
/usr/include/varnish/cache/cache_filter.h
/usr/include/varnish/cache/cache_varnishd.h
/usr/include/varnish/common
/usr/include/varnish/common/common_param.h
/usr/include/varnish/miniobj.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/acct_fields_bereq.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/acct_fields_req.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/backend_poll.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/ban_vars.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/bo_flags.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/boc_state.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/body_status.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/cli_cmds.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/debug_bits.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/feature_bits.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/h2_error.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/h2_frames.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/h2_settings.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/h2_stream.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/htc.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/http_headers.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/http_response.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/locks.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/obj_attr.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/oc_exp_flags.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/oc_flags.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/params.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/req_body.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/req_flags.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/sess_attr.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/sess_close.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/steps.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/symbol_kind.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/vcc_types.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/vcl_returns.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/vcl_states.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/vhd_fsm.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/vhd_fsm_funcs.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/vhd_return.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/vhp_huffman.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/vhp_static.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/vrt_stv_var.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/vsc_levels.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/vsl_tags.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/vsl_tags_http.h
/usr/include/varnish/tbl/waiters.h
/usr/include/varnish/vapi
/usr/include/varnish/vapi/vapi_options.h
/usr/include/varnish/vapi/voptget.h
/usr/include/varnish/vapi/vsc.h
/usr/include/varnish/vapi/vsl.h
/usr/include/varnish/vapi/vsl_int.h
/usr/include/varnish/vapi/vsm.h
/usr/include/varnish/vas.h
/usr/include/varnish/vav.h
/usr/include/varnish/vbm.h
/usr/include/varnish/vcl.h
/usr/include/varnish/vcli.h
/usr/include/varnish/vcs.h
/usr/include/varnish/vcs_version.h
/usr/include/varnish/vdef.h
/usr/include/varnish/vmod_abi.h
/usr/include/varnish/vqueue.h
/usr/include/varnish/vre.h
/usr/include/varnish/vrnd.h
/usr/include/varnish/vrt.h
/usr/include/varnish/vrt_obj.h
/usr/include/varnish/vsa.h
/usr/include/varnish/vsb.h
/usr/include/varnish/vsha256.h
/usr/include/varnish/vtcp.h
/usr/include/varnish/vtim.h
/usr/include/varnish/vtree.h
/usr/include/varnish/vut.h
/usr/include/varnish/vut_options.h
/usr/include/varnish/waiter
/usr/include/varnish/waiter/waiter.h
/usr/lib64/libvarnishapi.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/varnishapi.pc
/usr/share/aclocal/varnish-legacy.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/varnish.m4
/usr/share/doc/varnish-devel
/usr/share/doc/varnish-devel/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/varnish-devel
/usr/share/licenses/varnish-devel/LICENSE
/usr/share/varnish
/usr/share/varnish/vcl
/usr/share/varnish/vcl/devicedetect.vcl
/usr/share/varnish/vmodtool.py
/usr/share/varnish/vsctool.py

References

Summary

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