How To Install inotify-tools-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install inotify-tools-devel on CentOS 7. inotify-tools-devel is Headers and libraries for building apps that use libinotifytools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install inotify-tools-devel on CentOS 7.

What is inotify-tools-devel

This package contains headers and libraries required to build applications that use the libinotifytools library.

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

Install inotify-tools-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 inotify-tools-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install inotify-tools-devel

Install inotify-tools-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 inotify-tools-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install inotify-tools-devel

How To Uninstall inotify-tools-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the inotify-tools-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove inotify-tools-devel

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Summary

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