How To Install lesstif-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install lesstif-devel on CentOS 7. lesstif-devel is Header files for LessTif/Motif development

Introduction

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

What is lesstif-devel

Lesstif-devel contains the header files required to develop Motif based applications using LessTif. If you want to develop LessTif applications, you’ll need to install lesstif-devel along with lesstif.

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

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

sudo yum -y install lesstif-devel

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

sudo dnf -y install lesstif-devel

How To Uninstall lesstif-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove lesstif-devel

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Summary

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