How To Install gengetopt on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gengetopt
on CentOS 7.
What is gengetopt
Gengetopt is a tool to generate C code to parse the command line arguments argc and argv that are part of every C or C++ program. The generated code uses the C library function getopt_long to perform the actual command line parsing.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install gengetopt
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gengetopt.
Install gengetopt on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install gengetopt
using yum
by running the following command:
Install gengetopt 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 gengetopt
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall gengetopt on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gengetopt
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gengetopt
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.