How To Install libsmbios-cpp on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsmbios-cpp
on CentOS 7.
What is libsmbios-cpp
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. It is not actively maintained, but provided for backwards compatibility. New programs should use the libsmbios C interface.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libsmbios-cpp
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libsmbios-cpp.
Install libsmbios-cpp on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libsmbios-cpp
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libsmbios-cpp 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.
After updating yum database, We can install libsmbios-cpp
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libsmbios-cpp on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libsmbios-cpp
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsmbios-cpp
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.