How To Install libblocksruntime on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install libblocksruntime on CentOS 7. libblocksruntime is LLVM’s compiler-rt/BlocksRuntime development files

Introduction

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

What is libblocksruntime

This package contains development headers for building software that uses blocks, a proposed extension to the C, Objective C, and C++ languages developed by Apple to support the Grand Central Dispatch concurrency engine.

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

Install libblocksruntime on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install libblocksruntime

Install libblocksruntime 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 libblocksruntime using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libblocksruntime

How To Uninstall libblocksruntime on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove libblocksruntime

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Summary

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