How To Install jansson on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install jansson on CentOS 7. jansson is C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

Introduction

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

What is jansson

Small library for parsing and writing JSON documents. Small library for parsing and writing JSON documents.

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

Install jansson on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install jansson

Install jansson 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 jansson using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jansson

How To Uninstall jansson on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove jansson

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Summary

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