How To Install chealpix-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install chealpix-devel on CentOS 7. chealpix-devel is HEALPix C Bindings Library development files

Introduction

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

What is chealpix-devel

HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a subdivision of a spherical surface in which each pixel covers the same surface area as every other pixel. This package contains the C include file for development with HEALPix.

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

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

sudo yum -y install chealpix-devel

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

sudo dnf -y install chealpix-devel

How To Uninstall chealpix-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove chealpix-devel

References

Summary

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