How To Install hidapi on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hidapi
on CentOS 7.
What is hidapi
HIDAPI is a multi-platform library which allows an application to interface with USB and Bluetooth HID-class devices on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. On Linux, either the hidraw or the libusb back-end can be used. There are trade-offs and the functionality supported is slightly different.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install hidapi
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hidapi.
Install hidapi on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install hidapi
using yum
by running the following command:
Install hidapi 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 hidapi
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall hidapi on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the hidapi
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hidapi
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.