How To Install passenger-devel on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install passenger-devel in AlmaLinux 8. passenger-devel is Phusion Passenger development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install passenger-devel on AlmaLinux 8.

What is passenger-devel

This package contains development files for Phusion Passenger®. Installing this package allows it to compile native extensions for non-standard Ruby interpreters, and allows Passenger Standalone to use a different Nginx core version.

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

Install passenger-devel on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install passenger-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install passenger-devel

Install passenger-devel on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install passenger-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install passenger-devel

How To Uninstall passenger-devel on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove passenger-devel

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install passenger-devel on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.