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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libmnl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libmnl
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libmnl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libmnl
How To Uninstall libmnl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libmnl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libmnl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmnl on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
