How To Install cereal-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install cereal-devel on CentOS 7. cereal-devel is Development headers and libraries for cereal

Introduction

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

What is cereal-devel

cereal is a header-only C++11 serialization library. cereal takes arbitrary data types and reversibly turns them into different representations, such as compact binary encodings, XML, or JSON. cereal was designed to be fast, light-weight, and easy to extend - it has no external dependencies and can be easily bundled with other code or used standalone. This package contains development headers and libraries for the cereal library

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

Install cereal-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 cereal-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cereal-devel

Install cereal-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 cereal-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cereal-devel

How To Uninstall cereal-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove cereal-devel

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Summary

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