How To Install wayland-devel on CentOS 8

wayland-devel is Development files for wayland Development files for wayland

Introduction

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

What is `wayland-devel`

The wayland-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use wayland. wayland-devel 1.17.0 1.el8 x86_64 147 k wayland-1.17.0-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Development files for wayland http MIT The wayland-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use wayland.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install wayland-devel

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

sudo yum -y install wayland-devel

How To Uninstall wayland-devel on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove wayland-devel

wayland-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/wayland-scanner
/usr/include/wayland-client-core.h
/usr/include/wayland-client-protocol.h
/usr/include/wayland-client.h
/usr/include/wayland-cursor.h
/usr/include/wayland-egl-backend.h
/usr/include/wayland-egl-core.h
/usr/include/wayland-egl.h
/usr/include/wayland-server-core.h
/usr/include/wayland-server-protocol.h
/usr/include/wayland-server.h
/usr/include/wayland-util.h
/usr/include/wayland-version.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/a9644e0df4ef401907c1e7494101c5c8ef162b
/usr/lib/libwayland-client.so
/usr/lib/libwayland-cursor.so
/usr/lib/libwayland-egl.so
/usr/lib/libwayland-server.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/wayland-client.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/wayland-cursor.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/wayland-egl-backend.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/wayland-egl.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/wayland-scanner.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/wayland-server.pc
/usr/share/aclocal/wayland-scanner.m4
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_argument.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_array.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_client.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_display.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_display_connect.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_display_connect_to_fd.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_event_loop.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_event_queue.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_event_source.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_global.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_interface.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_list.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_listener.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_message.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_object.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_protocol_logger.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_protocol_logger_message.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_proxy.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_resource.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_resource_iterator_context.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_shm_buffer.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_shm_pool.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_shm_sigbus_data.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_signal.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_socket.3.gz
/usr/share/wayland
/usr/share/wayland/wayland-scanner.mk
/usr/share/wayland/wayland.dtd
/usr/share/wayland/wayland.xml
/usr/bin/wayland-scanner
/usr/include/wayland-client-core.h
/usr/include/wayland-client-protocol.h
/usr/include/wayland-client.h
/usr/include/wayland-cursor.h
/usr/include/wayland-egl-backend.h
/usr/include/wayland-egl-core.h
/usr/include/wayland-egl.h
/usr/include/wayland-server-core.h
/usr/include/wayland-server-protocol.h
/usr/include/wayland-server.h
/usr/include/wayland-util.h
/usr/include/wayland-version.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/dbf7aa46bb2057c7c9093cd22425645855a1e3
/usr/lib64/libwayland-client.so
/usr/lib64/libwayland-cursor.so
/usr/lib64/libwayland-egl.so
/usr/lib64/libwayland-server.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/wayland-client.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/wayland-cursor.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/wayland-egl-backend.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/wayland-egl.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/wayland-scanner.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/wayland-server.pc
/usr/share/aclocal/wayland-scanner.m4
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_argument.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_array.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_client.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_display.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_display_connect.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_display_connect_to_fd.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_event_loop.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_event_queue.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_event_source.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_global.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_interface.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_list.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_listener.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_message.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_object.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_protocol_logger.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_protocol_logger_message.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_proxy.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_resource.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_resource_iterator_context.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_shm_buffer.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_shm_pool.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_shm_sigbus_data.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_signal.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/wl_socket.3.gz
/usr/share/wayland
/usr/share/wayland/wayland-scanner.mk
/usr/share/wayland/wayland.dtd
/usr/share/wayland/wayland.xml

References

[wayland-devel website](http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ http://wayland.freedesktop.org/)

Summary

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