How To Install device-mapper-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-devel on CentOS 7. device-mapper-devel is Development libraries and headers for device-mapper

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-devel on CentOS 7.

What is device-mapper-devel

This package contains files needed to develop applications that use the device-mapper libraries. This package contains files needed to develop applications that use the device-mapper libraries.

We can use yum or dnf to install device-mapper-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install device-mapper-devel.

Install device-mapper-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install device-mapper-devel

Install device-mapper-devel on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install device-mapper-devel

How To Uninstall device-mapper-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove device-mapper-devel

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.