How To Install imake on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imake
on CentOS 7.
What is imake
Imake is a deprecated source code configuration and build system which has traditionally been supplied by and used to build the X Window System in X11R6 and previous releases. As of the X Window System X11R7 release, the X Window system has switched to using GNU autotools as the primary build system, and the Imake system is now deprecated, and should not be used by new software projects. Software developers are encouraged to migrate software to the GNU autotools system.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install imake
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install imake.
Install imake on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install imake
using yum
by running the following command:
Install imake 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 imake
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall imake on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the imake
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imake
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.