How To Install glib2 on CentOS 7
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.
After updating yum database, We can install glib2
using yum
by running the following command:
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.
After updating yum database, We can install glib2
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall glib2 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the glib2
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glib2
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.