How To Install hwinfo-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwinfo-devel on CentOS 7.
What is hwinfo-devel
Header files and libraries for developing with libhd library from hwinfo, a hardware information tool.
We can use yum or dnf to install hwinfo-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hwinfo-devel.
Install hwinfo-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 hwinfo-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hwinfo-devel
Install hwinfo-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 hwinfo-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hwinfo-devel
How To Uninstall hwinfo-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the hwinfo-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hwinfo-devel
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hwinfo-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
