How To Install quota-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install quota-devel on Rocky Linux 8. quota-devel is Development files for quota RPC

Introduction

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

What is quota-devel

This package contains development header files for implementing disk quotas on remote machines.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install quota-devel

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

sudo yum -y install quota-devel

How To Uninstall quota-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove quota-devel

quota-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/rpcsvc
/usr/include/rpcsvc/rquota.h
/usr/include/rpcsvc/rquota.x
/usr/share/licenses/quota-devel
/usr/share/licenses/quota-devel/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man3/rquota.3.gz

References

Summary

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