Libevent

Links: Homepage
Dependencies: None
Version: 2.0.21

Libevent is an event notification library.

Get the Code

Switch to /usr/local/src and download the source package.

cd /usr/local/src
curl --location --remote-name https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-VERSION-stable.tar.gz

Extract the archive and move into the folder.

tar -xzvf libevent-VERSION-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-VERSION-stable

Compile and Install

Configure, compile and install into /usr/local/libevent-VERSION.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libevent-VERSION
make
make install

Create a symbolic link that points /usr/local/libevent to /usr/local/libevent-VERSION.

ln -s libevent-VERSION /usr/local/libevent