How To Install libcli-devel on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is libcli-devel

Libcli provides a shared library for including a Cisco-like command-line interface into other software. It’s a telnet interface which supports command-line editing, history, authentication and callbacks for a user-definable function tree. These are the development files.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libcli-devel

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

sudo dnf -y install libcli-devel

How To Uninstall libcli-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove libcli-devel

References

• libcli-devel website

Summary

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