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

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-libs on Rocky Linux 8. device-mapper-libs is Device-mapper shared library

Introduction

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

What is device-mapper-libs

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

We can use yum or dnf to install device-mapper-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-libs.

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

sudo dnf -y install device-mapper-libs

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

sudo yum -y install device-mapper-libs

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

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

sudo dnf remove device-mapper-libs

device-mapper-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/8608df28c0b10d67c0f2ae00d7226aa21eb40e
/usr/lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-libs
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-libs/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-libs/COPYING.LIB
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/33748500d3f0deff52efe4dd5fe19f27b4d426
/usr/lib64/libdevmapper.so.1.02
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-libs
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-libs/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/device-mapper-libs/COPYING.LIB

References

Summary

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