How To Install libgs-devel on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgs-devel on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libgs-devel
This package contains development files that are useful for building packages against Ghostscript’s library, which provides Ghostscript’s core functionality.
We can use yum or dnf to install libgs-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libgs-devel.
Install libgs-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 libgs-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libgs-devel
Install libgs-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 libgs-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libgs-devel
How To Uninstall libgs-devel on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libgs-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libgs-devel
libgs-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/include/ghostscript
/usr/include/ghostscript/gdevdsp.h
/usr/include/ghostscript/gserrors.h
/usr/include/ghostscript/iapi.h
/usr/include/ghostscript/ierrors.h
/usr/lib/libgs.so
/usr/include/ghostscript
/usr/include/ghostscript/gdevdsp.h
/usr/include/ghostscript/gserrors.h
/usr/include/ghostscript/iapi.h
/usr/include/ghostscript/ierrors.h
/usr/lib64/libgs.so
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgs-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.