How To Install gtest on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gtest on CentOS 7.
What is gtest
Google’s framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Windows CE, and Symbian). Based on the xUnit architecture. Supports automatic test discovery, a rich set of assertions, user-defined assertions, death tests, fatal and non-fatal failures, various options for running the tests, and XML test report generation.
We can use yum or dnf to install gtest on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gtest.
Install gtest on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gtest using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gtest
Install gtest 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 gtest using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gtest
How To Uninstall gtest on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gtest package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gtest
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gtest on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
