How To Install remctl-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install remctl-devel on Rocky Linux 8. remctl-devel is Development files needed to compile C programs against remctl

Introduction

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

What is remctl-devel

remctl implements a client/server protocol for running single commands on a remote host using Kerberos v5 authentication. If you want to develop programs which use remctl’s libraries, you need to install this package.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install remctl-devel

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

sudo yum -y install remctl-devel

How To Uninstall remctl-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove remctl-devel

remctl-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/remctl.h
/usr/lib64/libremctl.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libremctl.pc
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_close.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_command.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_commandv.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_error.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_new.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_noop.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_open.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_open_addrinfo.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_open_fd.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_open_sockaddr.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_output.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_result_free.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_set_ccache.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_set_source_ip.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/remctl_set_timeout.3.gz

References

Summary

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