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In linux, the full name devel is develop, meaning "development" in Chinese, which refers to the development package of the corresponding software package; it contains all the necessary files for developing programs using this package, including at least header files and link libraries, and some development documents or demonstration code. The non-devel package contains only dynamic libraries and configuration files that make the program run.

The operating environment of this tutorial: linux5.9.8 system, Dell G3 computer.

When you install package on RHEL, you often see two package with the same name: with and without the devel suffix. For example:

Elfutils-libelf.x86_64: Library to read and write ELF files elfutils-libelf-devel.x86_64: Development support for libelf

So what does the devel in it mean?

Devel is the abbreviation of develop. A package with devel is a development package, which is the development package of the corresponding software package.

The difference between devel packages and non-devel packages:

Package without the devel suffix usually contains only dynamic libraries and configuration files that allow the program to run.

Package with the devel suffix, on the other hand, contains all the necessary files for using the package development program. Such as header files, etc. Sometimes devel package also includes static libraries.

The devel package is mainly for development and includes at least the following two things:

1. Header file

two。 Link library

Some also contain development documentation or demo code.

Take glib and glib-devel as examples:

If you install programs based on glib, you only need to install the glib package.

But if you want to compile the source code that uses glib, you need to install glib-devel.

Note:

Note that python-dev or other * .devel software are generally header files or cpp files written in C language, and other modules or modules written by ourselves need to rely on these *-devel packages when compiling.

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