How To Install kmod-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kmod-devel
on CentOS 7.
What is kmod-devel
The kmod-devel package provides header files used for development of applications that wish to load or unload Linux kernel modules. The kmod-devel package provides header files used for development of applications that wish to load or unload Linux kernel modules.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install kmod-devel
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kmod-devel.
Install kmod-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 kmod-devel
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kmod-devel
Install kmod-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 kmod-devel
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kmod-devel
How To Uninstall kmod-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the kmod-devel
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kmod-devel
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kmod-devel
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.