How To Install libcap-ng-devel on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcap-ng-devel on CentOS 7.

What is libcap-ng-devel

The libcap-ng-devel package contains the files needed for developing applications that need to use the libcap-ng library. The libcap-ng-devel package contains the files needed for developing applications that need to use the libcap-ng library.

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

Install libcap-ng-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 libcap-ng-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcap-ng-devel

Install libcap-ng-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 libcap-ng-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcap-ng-devel

How To Uninstall libcap-ng-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove libcap-ng-devel

References

• libcap-ng-devel website

Summary

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