How To Install libmongo-client on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmongo-client on CentOS 7. libmongo-client is Alternative C driver for MongoDB

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmongo-client on CentOS 7.

What is libmongo-client

Alternative C driver for MongoDB. Libmongo-client is meant to be a stable (API, ABI and quality alike), clean, well documented and well tested shared library, that strives to make the most common use cases as convenient as possible.

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

Install libmongo-client on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install libmongo-client using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmongo-client

Install libmongo-client 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 libmongo-client using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmongo-client

How To Uninstall libmongo-client on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the libmongo-client package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libmongo-client

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Summary

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