How To Install libowfat-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libowfat-devel on CentOS 7.
What is libowfat-devel
This library is a reimplementation of libdjb, which means that it provides Daniel Bernstein’s interfaces (with some extensions). It contains wrappers around memory allocation, buffered I/O, routines for formatting and scanning, a full DNS resolver, several socket routines, wrappers for socket functions, mkfifo, opendir, wait, and an abstraction around errno. It also includes wrappers for Unix signal functions and a layer of mmap and sendfile. The library is available for use with the diet libc.
We can use yum or dnf to install libowfat-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libowfat-devel.
Install libowfat-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libowfat-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libowfat-devel
Install libowfat-devel 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 libowfat-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libowfat-devel
How To Uninstall libowfat-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libowfat-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libowfat-devel
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libowfat-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
