How To Install lirc-devel on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lirc-devel on Rocky Linux 8.
What is lirc-devel
Part of the LIRC package suite which handles IR remotes. See the package lirc for more. This package includes files for developing applications that use lirc including headers and pkg-config files.
We can use yum or dnf to install lirc-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lirc-devel.
Install lirc-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 lirc-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lirc-devel
Install lirc-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 lirc-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lirc-devel
How To Uninstall lirc-devel on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the lirc-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lirc-devel
lirc-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/include/lirc
/usr/include/lirc/ciniparser.h
/usr/include/lirc/config.h
/usr/include/lirc/config_file.h
/usr/include/lirc/config_flags.h
/usr/include/lirc/curl_poll.h
/usr/include/lirc/dictionary.h
/usr/include/lirc/driver.h
/usr/include/lirc/drv_admin.h
/usr/include/lirc/drv_enum.h
/usr/include/lirc/dump_config.h
/usr/include/lirc/include
/usr/include/lirc/include/linux
/usr/include/lirc/include/linux/input-event-codes.h
/usr/include/lirc/include/media
/usr/include/lirc/include/media/lirc.h
/usr/include/lirc/input_map.h
/usr/include/lirc/input_map.inc
/usr/include/lirc/ir_remote.h
/usr/include/lirc/ir_remote_types.h
/usr/include/lirc/irpipe.h
/usr/include/lirc/irrecord.h
/usr/include/lirc/line_buffer.h
/usr/include/lirc/lirc-utils.h
/usr/include/lirc/lirc_client.h
/usr/include/lirc/lirc_config.h
/usr/include/lirc/lirc_log.h
/usr/include/lirc/lirc_options.h
/usr/include/lirc/media
/usr/include/lirc/paths.h
/usr/include/lirc/receive.h
/usr/include/lirc/release.h
/usr/include/lirc/serial.h
/usr/include/lirc/transmit.h
/usr/include/lirc_client.h
/usr/include/lirc_driver.h
/usr/include/lirc_private.h
/usr/lib64/libirrecord.so
/usr/lib64/liblirc.so
/usr/lib64/liblirc_client.so
/usr/lib64/liblirc_driver.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/lirc-driver.pc
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/lirc.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lirc-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.