How To Install libsmbios on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsmbios on CentOS 7.

What is libsmbios

Libsmbios is a library and utilities that can be used by client programs to get information from standard BIOS tables, such as the SMBIOS table. This package provides the C-based libsmbios library, with a C interface. Libsmbios is a library and utilities that can be used by client programs to get information from standard BIOS tables, such as the SMBIOS table. This package provides the C-based libsmbios library, with a C interface.

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

Install libsmbios on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install libsmbios using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsmbios

Install libsmbios 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 libsmbios using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libsmbios

How To Uninstall libsmbios on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the libsmbios package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libsmbios

References

• libsmbios website

Summary

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