How To Install hwinfo-devel on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwinfo-devel on Rocky Linux 8.
What is hwinfo-devel
Header files and libraries for developing with libhd library from hwinfo, a hardware information tool.
We can use yum or dnf to install hwinfo-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hwinfo-devel.
Install hwinfo-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 hwinfo-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hwinfo-devel
Install hwinfo-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 hwinfo-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hwinfo-devel
How To Uninstall hwinfo-devel on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the hwinfo-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hwinfo-devel
hwinfo-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/include/hd.h
/usr/lib64/libhd.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/hwinfo.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwinfo-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.