How To Install device-mapper-event-libs on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-event-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is device-mapper-event-libs

This package contains the device-mapper event daemon shared library, libdevmapper-event.

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

Install device-mapper-event-libs 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 device-mapper-event-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install device-mapper-event-libs

Install device-mapper-event-libs 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 device-mapper-event-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install device-mapper-event-libs

How To Uninstall device-mapper-event-libs on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove device-mapper-event-libs

device-mapper-event-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/bf813997aae92dd93c375ca161d03b0ee00083
/usr/lib/libdevmapper-event.so.1.02
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-event-libs
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-event-libs/COPYING.LIB
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/3da209f72203ce98483d9109257a0796cc1336
/usr/lib64/libdevmapper-event.so.1.02
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-event-libs
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-event-libs/COPYING.LIB

References

• device-mapper-event-libs website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-event-libs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.