What is the Fedora equivalent of the Debian build-essential package?

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Solution 1

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

Solution 2

For Fedora 23 and up to somewhere near Fedora 32:

dnf install @development-tools

Installing gcc and g++ might also be needed.

Solution 3

The command is yum-builddep. It is included in the yum-utils package.

sudo yum install yum-utils
sudo yum-builddep $the_pkg_you_want_to_build

Solution 4

Enable block_dump logging of what processes are doing block read/write operations:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
tail -f /var/log/syslog

when done, disable the tracing so you don't spam your log files:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump

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Steve Burdine

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Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

Steve Burdine almost 2 years

What is the Fedora equivalent of the Debian build-essential package?
Daniel S. Sterling almost 11 years

This does not actually answer the asked question but is none-the-less useful to know
andlabs about 8 years

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!
Kirk over 7 years

I think the answer should be updated, since this is the better answer for modern versions of fedora.
Kirk over 7 years

Better answer below for modern Fedora
davidtbernal over 7 years

I had to run sudo dnf group install "C Development Tools and Libraries"
Peng about 5 years

@development-tools doesn't seem to include gcc-c++, so I also had to install the C Development group as mentioned by @davidtbernal
Aspiring Dev about 4 years

@development-tools is not available on Fedora 32.
Karl Studnik about 4 years

@AspiringDev @development-tools are available, @development-libraries aren’t.
Aspiring Dev about 4 years

@JurajFiala not on Fedora 32 at least: Module or Group '@development-tools' is not available. Error: Nothing to do.
neosergio almost 4 years

I confirm @development-tools is not available: Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:26 ago on Tue 25 Aug 2020 07:38:48 PM -05. Module or Group '@development-tools' is not available. Error: Nothing to do.
Rahul Bali over 3 years

sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries" brilliant.
Admin about 2 years

Fedora 36 - sudo dnf group install "C Development Tools and Libraries" "Development Tools" works for me.