How To Install libXcompshad-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXcompshad-devel on Rocky Linux 8. libXcompshad-devel is Development files for the NX session shadowing library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXcompshad-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libXcompshad-devel

NX is a software suite which implements very efficient compression of the X11 protocol. This increases performance when using X applications over a network, especially a slow one. The NX session shadowing library’s development files.

We can use yum or dnf to install libXcompshad-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libXcompshad-devel.

Install libXcompshad-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 libXcompshad-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libXcompshad-devel

Install libXcompshad-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 libXcompshad-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libXcompshad-devel

How To Uninstall libXcompshad-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libXcompshad-devel

libXcompshad-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/nx
/usr/include/nx/Shadow.h
/usr/lib64/libXcompshad.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/nxcompshad.pc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libXcompshad-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.