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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install dtc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dtc
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install dtc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dtc
How To Uninstall dtc on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dtc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dtc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dtc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
