How To Install flickcurl on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flickcurl on CentOS 7.
What is flickcurl
Flickcurl is a C library for the Flickr API, handling creating the requests, signing, token management, calling the API, marshalling request parameters and decoding responses. It uses libcurl to call the REST web service and libxml2 to manipulate the XML responses. Flickcurl supports all of the API including the functions for photo/video uploading, browsing, searching, adding and editing comments, groups, notes, photosets, categories, activity, blogs, favorites, places, tags, machine tags, institutions, pandas and photo/video metadata. It also includes a program flickrdf to turn photo metadata, tags, machine tags and places into an RDF triples description.
We can use yum or dnf to install flickcurl on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flickcurl.
Install flickcurl on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install flickcurl using yum by running the following command:
Install flickcurl 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 flickcurl using dnf by running the following command:
How To Uninstall flickcurl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the flickcurl package we can use the following command:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flickcurl on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.