How To Install gflags on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gflags
on CentOS 7.
What is gflags
The gflags package contains a library that implements commandline flags processing. As such it’s a replacement for getopt(). It has increased flexibility, including built-in support for C++ types like string, and the ability to define flags in the source file in which they’re used.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install gflags
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gflags.
Install gflags on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install gflags
using yum
by running the following command:
Install gflags 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 gflags
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall gflags on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gflags
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gflags
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.