How To Install blt-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install blt-devel on CentOS 7. blt-devel is Development files for BLT

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blt-devel on CentOS 7.

What is blt-devel

BLT is an extension to the Tk toolkit. BLT’s most useful feature is the provision of more widgets for Tk, but it also provides more geometry managers and miscellaneous other commands. Note that you won’t need to any patching of the Tcl or Tk source file to use BLT, but you will need to have Tcl/Tk installed in order to use BLT. This package provides headers needed to build packages based on BLT.

We can use yum or dnf to install blt-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blt-devel.

Install blt-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install blt-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blt-devel

Install blt-devel on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install blt-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blt-devel

How To Uninstall blt-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the blt-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove blt-devel

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blt-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.