How To Install gtest on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gtest on CentOS 8.
What is gtest
Framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, and Symbian). Based on the xUnit architecture. Supports automatic test discovery, a rich set of assertions, user-defined assertions, death tests, fatal and non-fatal failures, various options for running the tests, and XML test report generation. gtest 1.8.0 5.el8 x86_64 132 k gtest-1.8.0-5.el8.src.rpm powertools Google C++ testing framework https BSD and ASL2.0 Framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, and Symbian). Based on the xUnit architecture. Supports automatic test discovery, a rich set of assertions, user-defined assertions, death tests, fatal and non-fatal failures, various options for running the tests, and XML test report generation.
We can use yum or dnf to install gtest on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gtest.
Install gtest 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 gtest using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gtest
Install gtest 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 gtest using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gtest
How To Uninstall gtest on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gtest package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gtest
gtest Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/c0cc05cb6eeaf04d4717f162e91d8fb3b473a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/9835edbdc32e7bf96dc9fcd199898403d5004b
/usr/lib/libgtest.so.1.8.0
/usr/lib/libgtest_main.so.1.8.0
/usr/share/licenses/gtest
/usr/share/licenses/gtest/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/52ca0b68a2e0e603aca47ad6104c89cc2e28ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/962325ddd629200b94318a231f5833ce27dc34
/usr/lib64/libgtest.so.1.8.0
/usr/lib64/libgtest_main.so.1.8.0
/usr/share/licenses/gtest
/usr/share/licenses/gtest/LICENSE
References
- [gtest website](https://github.com/google/googletest https://github.com/google/googletest)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gtest on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.