How To Install libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64 is Development files for the libblockdev-btrfs plugin/library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64

This package contains header files and pkg-config files needed for development with the libblockdev-btrfs plugin/library.

We can use yum to install libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64.

Install libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64

libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/blockdev
/usr/include/blockdev/btrfs.h
/usr/lib64/libbd_btrfs.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev-btrfs-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.