How To Install gtk2-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk2-devel on CentOS 7.
What is gtk2-devel
This package contains the libraries and header files that are needed for writing applications with the GTK+ widget toolkit. If you plan to develop applications with GTK+, consider installing the gtk2-devel-docs package. This package contains the libraries and header files that are needed for writing applications with the GTK+ widget toolkit. If you plan to develop applications with GTK+, consider installing the gtk2-devel-docs package.
We can use yum or dnf to install gtk2-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gtk2-devel.
Install gtk2-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 gtk2-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gtk2-devel
Install gtk2-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 gtk2-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gtk2-devel
How To Uninstall gtk2-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gtk2-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gtk2-devel
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk2-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
