How To Install libmnl on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmnl
on CentOS 7.
What is libmnl
libmnl is a minimalistic user-space library oriented to Netlink developers. There are a lot of common tasks in parsing, validating, constructing of both the Netlink header and TLVs that are repetitive and easy to get wrong. This library aims to provide simple helpers that allows you to re-use code and to avoid re-inventing the wheel. libmnl is a minimalistic user-space library oriented to Netlink developers. There are a lot of common tasks in parsing, validating, constructing of both the Netlink header and TLVs that are repetitive and easy to get wrong. This library aims to provide simple helpers that allows you to re-use code and to avoid re-inventing the wheel.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libmnl
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libmnl.
Install libmnl on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libmnl
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libmnl 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 libmnl
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libmnl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libmnl
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmnl
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.