How To Install cmake on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cmake
on CentOS 7.
What is cmake
CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. CMake is quite sophisticated requiring system configuration, preprocessor generation, code generation, and template instantiation.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install cmake
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cmake.
Install cmake on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install cmake
using yum
by running the following command:
Install cmake 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.
After updating yum database, We can install cmake
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall cmake on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the cmake
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cmake
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.