How To Install libfdisk-devel on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

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

What is libfdisk-devel

This is development library and headers for fdisk-like programs, part of util-linux.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install libfdisk-devel

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

sudo yum -y install libfdisk-devel

How To Uninstall libfdisk-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove libfdisk-devel

libfdisk-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/libfdisk
/usr/include/libfdisk/libfdisk.h
/usr/lib/libfdisk.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/fdisk.pc
/usr/include/libfdisk
/usr/include/libfdisk/libfdisk.h
/usr/lib64/libfdisk.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/fdisk.pc

References

• libfdisk-devel website

Summary

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