How To Install libinput on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libinput
on CentOS 7.
What is libinput
libinput is a library that handles input devices for display servers and other applications that need to directly deal with input devices. It provides device detection, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction so minimize the amount of custom input code the user of libinput need to provide the common set of functionality that users expect. libinput is a library that handles input devices for display servers and other applications that need to directly deal with input devices. It provides device detection, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction so minimize the amount of custom input code the user of libinput need to provide the common set of functionality that users expect.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libinput
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libinput.
Install libinput on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libinput
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libinput 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.
After updating yum database, We can install libinput
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libinput on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libinput
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libinput
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.