How To Install libgudev on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgudev on CentOS 8. libgudev is GObject-based wrapper library for libudev

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgudev on CentOS 8.

What is libgudev

This library makes it much simpler to use libudev from programs already using GObject. It also makes it possible to easily use libudev from other programming languages, such as Javascript, because of GObject introspection support. This library makes it much simpler to use libudev from programs already using GObject. It also makes it possible to easily use libudev from other programming languages, such as Javascript, because of GObject introspection support.

We can use yum or dnf to install libgudev on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libgudev.

Install libgudev on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install libgudev using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgudev

Install libgudev on CentOS 8 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 libgudev using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libgudev

How To Uninstall libgudev on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the libgudev package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libgudev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgudev on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.