How To Install glib2 on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install glib2 on CentOS 7. glib2 is A library of handy utility functions

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glib2 on CentOS 7.

What is glib2

GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.

We can use yum or dnf to install glib2 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glib2.

Install glib2 on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install glib2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glib2

Install glib2 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 glib2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glib2

How To Uninstall glib2 on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the glib2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove glib2

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glib2 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.