How To Install flex-devel on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is flex-devel

This package contains the library with default implementations of main' and yywrap’ functions that the client binary can choose to use instead of implementing their own. This package contains the library with default implementations of main' and yywrap’ functions that the client binary can choose to use instead of implementing their own.

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

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

sudo yum -y install flex-devel

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

sudo dnf -y install flex-devel

How To Uninstall flex-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove flex-devel

References

• flex-devel website

Summary

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