How To Install libcap on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcap
on CentOS 7.
What is libcap
libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libcap
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libcap.
Install libcap on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libcap
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libcap
Install libcap 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 libcap
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libcap
How To Uninstall libcap on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libcap
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libcap
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcap
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.