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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install imake using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install imake
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install imake using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install imake
How To Uninstall imake on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the imake package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove imake
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imake on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
