How To Install uuid-devel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install uuid-devel on Rocky Linux 8. uuid-devel is Development support for Universally Unique Identifier library

Introduction

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

What is uuid-devel

Development headers and libraries for OSSP uuid.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install uuid-devel

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

sudo yum -y install uuid-devel

How To Uninstall uuid-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove uuid-devel

uuid-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/uuid-config
/usr/bin/uuid-config.i686
/usr/include/uuid.h
/usr/lib/libossp-uuid.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ossp-uuid.pc
/usr/share/man/man1/uuid-config.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/ossp-uuid.3.gz
/usr/bin/uuid-config
/usr/bin/uuid-config.x86_64
/usr/include/uuid.h
/usr/lib64/libossp-uuid.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ossp-uuid.pc
/usr/share/man/man1/uuid-config.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/ossp-uuid.3.gz

References

Summary

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