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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblockdev-utils-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libblockdev-utils-devel.x86_64 is Development files for libblockdev-utils

Introduction

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

What is libblockdev-utils-devel.x86_64

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

We can use yum to install libblockdev-utils-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-utils-devel.x86_64.

Install libblockdev-utils-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-utils-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

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

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

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

sudo yum remove libblockdev-utils-devel.x86_64

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

/usr/include/blockdev
/usr/include/blockdev/dev_utils.h
/usr/include/blockdev/exec.h
/usr/include/blockdev/extra_arg.h
/usr/include/blockdev/module.h
/usr/include/blockdev/sizes.h
/usr/include/blockdev/utils.h
/usr/lib64/libbd_part_err.so
/usr/lib64/libbd_utils.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/blockdev-utils.pc

References

Summary

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