What is the Fedora equivalent of the Debian build-essential package?
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The closest equivalent would probably be to install the below packages:
sudo dnf install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel
However, if you don't care about exact equivalence and are ok with pulling in a lot of packages you can install all the development tools and libraries with the below command.
sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"
On Fedora version older than 32 you will need the following:
sudo dnf groupinstall @development-tools @development-libraries
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For Fedora 23 and up to somewhere near Fedora 32. Also works in Fedora 38.
dnf install @development-tools
Installing gcc and g++ might also be needed.
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For what it's worth, this is a literal equivalent to
build-essential linux-headers-generic; it only installs what's needed to compile software (like gcc and make) as well as kernel headers. Thanks! – andlabs Apr 26 '16 at 15:52 -
My mistake;
linux-headers-genericalso requires Fedora packagelinux-devel. – andlabs Apr 26 '16 at 18:38 -
1I think the answer should be updated, since this is the better answer for modern versions of fedora. – Kirk Oct 29 '16 at 12:02
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6I had to run
sudo dnf group install "C Development Tools and Libraries"– davidtbernal Nov 06 '16 at 21:29 -
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@development-toolsdoesn't seem to includegcc-c++, so I also had to install the C Development group as mentioned by @davidtbernal – jocull Apr 30 '19 at 19:20
@development-toolsis not available on Fedora 32. – Aspiring Dev May 19 '20 at 22:12@development-toolsare available,@development-librariesaren’t. – Juraj Fiala Jun 25 '20 at 14:33Module or Group '@development-tools' is not available. Error: Nothing to do.– Aspiring Dev Jun 27 '20 at 02:12sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"brilliant. – Rahul Bali Nov 15 '20 at 16:59sudo dnf group install "C Development Tools and Libraries" "Development Tools"works for me. – lqlarry Jun 23 '22 at 20:25redhat-rpm-configseems to be needed, although somehow strange – akostadinov Oct 12 '23 at 12:55