How To Install libdfp on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdfp on CentOS 8.
What is libdfp
The “Decimal Floating Point C Library” is an implementation of ISO/IEC Technical report “ISO/IEC TR 24732” which describes the C-Language library routines necessary to provide the C library runtime support for decimal floating point data types introduced in IEEE 754-2008, namely _Decimal32, _Decimal64, and _Decimal128.
We can use yum or dnf to install libdfp on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libdfp.
Install libdfp on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libdfp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libdfp
Install libdfp on CentOS 8 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 libdfp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libdfp
How To Uninstall libdfp on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the libdfp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libdfp
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdfp on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.