How To Install icecream on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icecream on CentOS 7.
What is icecream
Icecream is a distributed compile system. It allows parallel compiling by distributing the compile jobs to several nodes of a compile network running the icecc daemon. The icecc scheduler routes the jobs and provides status and statistics information to the icecc monitor. Each compile node can accept one or more compile jobs depending on the number of processors and the settings of the daemon. Link jobs and other jobs which cannot be distributed are executed locally on the node where the compilation is started.
We can use yum or dnf to install icecream on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install icecream.
Install icecream on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install icecream using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install icecream
Install icecream 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 icecream using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install icecream
How To Uninstall icecream on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the icecream package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove icecream
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icecream on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
