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