How To Install enet on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install enet on CentOS 7.
What is enet
ENet is a relatively thin, simple and robust network communication layer on top of UDP (User Datagram Protocol). The primary feature it provides is optional reliable, in-order delivery of packets. ENet is NOT intended to be a general purpose high level networking library that handles authentication, lobbying, server discovery, compression, encryption and other high level, often application level or dependent tasks.
We can use yum or dnf to install enet on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install enet.
Install enet on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install enet using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install enet
Install enet 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 enet using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install enet
How To Uninstall enet on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the enet package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove enet
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install enet on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.