Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install soci-mysql-devel on CentOS 8.
What is soci-mysql-devel
This package contains the MySQL back-end for soci, i.e., header files and dynamic libraries specific to the MySQL database. If you would like to develop programs using soci and MySQL, you will need to install soci-mysql.
We can use yum or dnf to install soci-mysql-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install soci-mysql-devel.
Install soci-mysql-devel on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install soci-mysql-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install soci-mysql-devel
Install soci-mysql-devel on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install soci-mysql-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install soci-mysql-devel
How To Uninstall soci-mysql-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the soci-mysql-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove soci-mysql-devel
soci-mysql-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/include/soci
/usr/include/soci/mysql
/usr/include/soci/mysql/soci-mysql.h
/usr/lib64/libsoci_mysql.so
/usr/share/doc/soci-mysql-devel
/usr/share/doc/soci-mysql-devel/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/soci-mysql-devel/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/soci-mysql-devel/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/soci-mysql-devel/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/soci-mysql-devel/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install soci-mysql-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
