How To Install libabigail-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libabigail-devel on Rocky Linux 8. libabigail-devel is Shared library and header files to write ABI analysis tools

Introduction

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

What is libabigail-devel

This package contains a shared library and the associated header files that are necessary to develop applications that use the C++ Libabigail library. The library provides facilities to analyze and compare application binary interfaces of shared libraries in the ELF format.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install libabigail-devel

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

sudo yum -y install libabigail-devel

How To Uninstall libabigail-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libabigail-devel

libabigail-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/libabigail
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-comp-filter.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-comparison.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-config.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-corpus.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-cxx-compat.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-diff-utils.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-dwarf-reader.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-fwd.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-hash.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-ini.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-interned-str.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-ir.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-libxml-utils.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-libzip-utils.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-reader.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-regex.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-reporter.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-sptr-utils.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-suppression.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-tools-utils.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-traverse.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-version.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-viz-common.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-viz-dot.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-viz-svg.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-workers.h
/usr/include/libabigail/abg-writer.h
/usr/lib64/libabigail.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libabigail.pc
/usr/share/aclocal/abigail.m4

References

Summary

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