How To Install librx-devel on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install librx-devel on CentOS 7. librx-devel is POSIX regexp functions, developers library

Introduction

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

What is librx-devel

Rx is, among other things, an implementation of the interface specified by POSIX for programming with regular expressions. Some other implementations are GNU regex.c and Henry Spencer’s regex library. This package contains files needed for development with librx.

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

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

sudo yum -y install librx-devel

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

sudo dnf -y install librx-devel

How To Uninstall librx-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove librx-devel

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Summary

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