How To Install inchi-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install inchi-devel on CentOS 7. inchi-devel is Development headers for the InChI library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install inchi-devel on CentOS 7.

What is inchi-devel

The inchi-devel package includes the header files and libraries necessary for developing programs using the InChI library. If you are going to develop programs which will use this library you should install inchi-devel. You’ll also need to have the inchi package installed.

We can use yum or dnf to install inchi-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install inchi-devel.

Install inchi-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 inchi-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install inchi-devel

Install inchi-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 inchi-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install inchi-devel

How To Uninstall inchi-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the inchi-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove inchi-devel

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install inchi-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.