How To Install freeimage-plus on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeimage-plus on CentOS 8.
What is freeimage-plus
The freeimage-plus package contains the C++ wrapper library for freeimage.
We can use yum or dnf to install freeimage-plus on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeimage-plus.
Install freeimage-plus 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 freeimage-plus using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freeimage-plus
Install freeimage-plus 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 freeimage-plus using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freeimage-plus
How To Uninstall freeimage-plus on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the freeimage-plus package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freeimage-plus
freeimage-plus Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/302f1840cd416563ecf58193c222796faf6e1b
/usr/lib64/libfreeimageplus-3.17.0.so
/usr/lib64/libfreeimageplus.so.3
/usr/share/doc/freeimage-plus
/usr/share/doc/freeimage-plus/WhatsNew_FIP.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeimage-plus on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.