How To Install pybind11-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install pybind11-devel on Rocky Linux 8. pybind11-devel is Development headers for pybind11

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pybind11-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is pybind11-devel

pybind11 is a lightweight header-only library that exposes C++ types in Python and vice versa, mainly to create Python bindings of existing C++ code. This package contains the development headers for pybind11.

We can use yum or dnf to install pybind11-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pybind11-devel.

Install pybind11-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 pybind11-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pybind11-devel

Install pybind11-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 pybind11-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pybind11-devel

How To Uninstall pybind11-devel on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the pybind11-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pybind11-devel

pybind11-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/pybind11
/usr/include/pybind11/attr.h
/usr/include/pybind11/buffer_info.h
/usr/include/pybind11/cast.h
/usr/include/pybind11/chrono.h
/usr/include/pybind11/common.h
/usr/include/pybind11/complex.h
/usr/include/pybind11/detail
/usr/include/pybind11/detail/class.h
/usr/include/pybind11/detail/common.h
/usr/include/pybind11/detail/descr.h
/usr/include/pybind11/detail/init.h
/usr/include/pybind11/detail/internals.h
/usr/include/pybind11/detail/typeid.h
/usr/include/pybind11/eigen.h
/usr/include/pybind11/embed.h
/usr/include/pybind11/eval.h
/usr/include/pybind11/functional.h
/usr/include/pybind11/iostream.h
/usr/include/pybind11/numpy.h
/usr/include/pybind11/operators.h
/usr/include/pybind11/options.h
/usr/include/pybind11/pybind11.h
/usr/include/pybind11/pytypes.h
/usr/include/pybind11/stl.h
/usr/include/pybind11/stl_bind.h
/usr/share/cmake/pybind11
/usr/share/cmake/pybind11/FindPythonLibsNew.cmake
/usr/share/cmake/pybind11/pybind11Config.cmake
/usr/share/cmake/pybind11/pybind11ConfigVersion.cmake
/usr/share/cmake/pybind11/pybind11Targets.cmake
/usr/share/cmake/pybind11/pybind11Tools.cmake
/usr/share/doc/pybind11-devel
/usr/share/doc/pybind11-devel/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/pybind11-devel
/usr/share/licenses/pybind11-devel/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pybind11-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.