How To Install itk on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install itk on CentOS 7. itk is Object oriented extensions to Tk

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install itk on CentOS 7.

What is itk

[incr Tk] is Tk extension that provides object-oriented features that are missing from the Tk extension to Tcl. The OO features provided by itk are useful for building megawidgets.

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

Install itk on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install itk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install itk

Install itk 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 itk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install itk

How To Uninstall itk on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the itk package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove itk

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Summary

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