How To Install compat-lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is compat-lua-devel

This package contains development files for compat-lua-libs.

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

Install compat-lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install compat-lua-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install compat-lua-devel

Install compat-lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install compat-lua-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install compat-lua-devel

How To Uninstall compat-lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove compat-lua-devel

compat-lua-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/lua-5.1
/usr/include/lua-5.1/lauxlib.h
/usr/include/lua-5.1/lua.h
/usr/include/lua-5.1/lua.hpp
/usr/include/lua-5.1/luaconf.h
/usr/include/lua-5.1/lualib.h
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/lua-5.1.pc

References

• compat-lua-devel website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.