How To Install freetype-devel on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is freetype-devel

The freetype-devel package includes the static libraries and header files for the FreeType font rendering engine. Install freetype-devel if you want to develop programs which will use FreeType. The freetype-devel package includes the static libraries and header files for the FreeType font rendering engine. Install freetype-devel if you want to develop programs which will use FreeType.

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

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

sudo yum -y install freetype-devel

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

sudo dnf -y install freetype-devel

How To Uninstall freetype-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove freetype-devel

References

• freetype-devel website

Summary

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