How To Install libpmemobj-devel on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmemobj-devel on CentOS 7.

What is libpmemobj-devel

The libpmemobj library provides a transactional object store, providing memory allocation, transactions, and general facilities for persistent memory programming. Developers new to persistent memory probably want to start with this library.

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

Install libpmemobj-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 libpmemobj-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpmemobj-devel

Install libpmemobj-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 libpmemobj-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libpmemobj-devel

How To Uninstall libpmemobj-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the libpmemobj-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libpmemobj-devel

References

• libpmemobj-devel website

Summary

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