How To Install dtc on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dtc
on CentOS 7.
What is dtc
Devicetree is a data structure for describing hardware. Rather than hard coding every detail of a device into an operating system, many aspects of the hardware can be described in a data structure that is passed to the operating system at boot time. The devicetree is used by OpenFirmware, OpenPOWER Abstraction Layer (OPAL), Power Architecture Platform Requirements (PAPR) and in the standalone Flattened Device Tree (FDT) form.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dtc
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dtc.
Install dtc on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dtc
using yum
by running the following command:
Install dtc 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 dtc
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall dtc on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dtc
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dtc
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.