How To Install parted-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install parted-devel on CentOS 7. parted-devel is Files for developing apps which will manipulate disk partitions

Introduction

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

What is parted-devel

The GNU Parted library is a set of routines for hard disk partition manipulation. If you want to develop programs that manipulate disk partitions and filesystems using the routines provided by the GNU Parted library, you need to install this package. The GNU Parted library is a set of routines for hard disk partition manipulation. If you want to develop programs that manipulate disk partitions and filesystems using the routines provided by the GNU Parted library, you need to install this package.

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

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

sudo yum -y install parted-devel

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

sudo dnf -y install parted-devel

How To Uninstall parted-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove parted-devel

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Summary

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