How To Install inn-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install inn-devel on CentOS 7. inn-devel is The INN (InterNetNews) library

Introduction

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

What is inn-devel

The inn-devel package contains the INN (InterNetNews) library, which several programs that interface with INN need in order to work (for example, newsgate and tin). If you are installing a program which must interface with the INN news system, you should install inn-devel.

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

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

sudo yum -y install inn-devel

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

sudo dnf -y install inn-devel

How To Uninstall inn-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove inn-devel

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Summary

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