How To Install libnice on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnice on CentOS 7.
What is libnice
libnice is an implementation of the IETF’s draft Interactive Connectivity Establishment standard (ICE). ICE is useful for applications that want to establish peer-to-peer UDP data streams. It automates the process of traversing NATs and provides security against some attacks. Existing standards that use ICE include the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Jingle, XMPP extension for audio/video calls. libnice is an implementation of the IETF’s draft Interactive Connectivity Establishment standard (ICE). ICE is useful for applications that want to establish peer-to-peer UDP data streams. It automates the process of traversing NATs and provides security against some attacks. Existing standards that use ICE include the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Jingle, XMPP extension for audio/video calls.
We can use yum or dnf to install libnice on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libnice.
Install libnice on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libnice using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libnice
Install libnice 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 libnice using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libnice
How To Uninstall libnice on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libnice package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libnice
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnice on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
