How To Install libatasmart on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install libatasmart on CentOS 7. libatasmart is ATA S.M.A.R.T. Disk Health Monitoring Library

Introduction

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

What is libatasmart

A small and lightweight parser library for ATA S.M.A.R.T. hard disk health monitoring. A small and lightweight parser library for ATA S.M.A.R.T. hard disk health monitoring.

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

Install libatasmart on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install libatasmart

Install libatasmart 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 libatasmart using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libatasmart

How To Uninstall libatasmart on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove libatasmart

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Summary

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