How To Install wireshark-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark-devel on CentOS 7. wireshark-devel is Development headers and libraries for wireshark

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark-devel on CentOS 7.

What is wireshark-devel

The wireshark-devel package contains the header files, developer documentation, and libraries required for development of wireshark scripts and plugins. The wireshark-devel package contains the header files, developer documentation, and libraries required for development of wireshark scripts and plugins.

We can use yum or dnf to install wireshark-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wireshark-devel.

Install wireshark-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install wireshark-devel

Install wireshark-devel on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install wireshark-devel

How To Uninstall wireshark-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove wireshark-devel

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.