How To Install giflib-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install giflib-devel on CentOS 7.
What is giflib-devel
The giflib-devel package includes header files, libraries necessary for developing programs which use the giflib library to load and save GIF format image files. It contains the documentation of the giflib library, too. The giflib-devel package includes header files, libraries necessary for developing programs which use the giflib library to load and save GIF format image files. It contains the documentation of the giflib library, too.
We can use yum or dnf to install giflib-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install giflib-devel.
Install giflib-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 giflib-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install giflib-devel
Install giflib-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 giflib-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install giflib-devel
How To Uninstall giflib-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the giflib-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove giflib-devel
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install giflib-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
