How To Install yara-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yara-devel on CentOS 8.
What is yara-devel
The yara-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use yara.
We can use yum or dnf to install yara-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yara-devel.
Install yara-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 yara-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install yara-devel
Install yara-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 yara-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install yara-devel
How To Uninstall yara-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the yara-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove yara-devel
yara-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/yara
/usr/include/yara.h
/usr/include/yara/ahocorasick.h
/usr/include/yara/arena.h
/usr/include/yara/atoms.h
/usr/include/yara/base64.h
/usr/include/yara/bitmask.h
/usr/include/yara/compiler.h
/usr/include/yara/error.h
/usr/include/yara/exec.h
/usr/include/yara/exefiles.h
/usr/include/yara/filemap.h
/usr/include/yara/hash.h
/usr/include/yara/integers.h
/usr/include/yara/libyara.h
/usr/include/yara/limits.h
/usr/include/yara/mem.h
/usr/include/yara/modules.h
/usr/include/yara/notebook.h
/usr/include/yara/object.h
/usr/include/yara/parser.h
/usr/include/yara/proc.h
/usr/include/yara/re.h
/usr/include/yara/rules.h
/usr/include/yara/scan.h
/usr/include/yara/scanner.h
/usr/include/yara/sizedstr.h
/usr/include/yara/stack.h
/usr/include/yara/stopwatch.h
/usr/include/yara/stream.h
/usr/include/yara/strutils.h
/usr/include/yara/threading.h
/usr/include/yara/types.h
/usr/include/yara/utils.h
/usr/lib64/libyara.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/yara.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yara-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.