How To Install hidapi on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hidapi on Rocky Linux 8.
What is hidapi
HIDAPI is a multi-platform library which allows an application to interface with USB and Bluetooth HID-class devices on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. On Linux, either the hidraw or the libusb back-end can be used. There are trade-offs and the functionality supported is slightly different.
We can use yum or dnf to install hidapi on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hidapi.
Install hidapi 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 hidapi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hidapi
Install hidapi 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 hidapi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hidapi
How To Uninstall hidapi on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the hidapi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hidapi
hidapi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/927a7e0b76c0a17bd74b9f40934d29f30dc66f
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/67d36a4c46e4c51dc25d154fb31502dafeb050
/usr/lib64/libhidapi-hidraw.so.0
/usr/lib64/libhidapi-hidraw.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libhidapi-libusb.so.0
/usr/lib64/libhidapi-libusb.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/hidapi
/usr/share/doc/hidapi/AUTHORS.txt
/usr/share/doc/hidapi/LICENSE-bsd.txt
/usr/share/doc/hidapi/LICENSE-gpl3.txt
/usr/share/doc/hidapi/LICENSE-orig.txt
/usr/share/doc/hidapi/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/doc/hidapi/README.md
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hidapi on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.