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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gflags using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gflags
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gflags using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gflags
How To Uninstall gflags on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gflags package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gflags
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gflags on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
