How To Install quota-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

Introduction

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

What is quota-devel.x86_64

The quota package contains system administration tools for monitoring and limiting user and or group disk usage per file system. This package contains development header files for implementing quotas on remote machines.

We can use yum to install quota-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 quota-devel.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install quota-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall quota-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove quota-devel.x86_64

quota-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/rpcsvc
/usr/include/rpcsvc/rquota.h
/usr/include/rpcsvc/rquota.x
/usr/share/man/man3/rquota.3.gz

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Summary

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