How To Install libsmbios-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsmbios-devel on CentOS 7.
What is libsmbios-devel
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 contains the headers and .a files necessary to compile new client programs against 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 contains the headers and .a files necessary to compile new client programs against libsmbios.
We can use yum or dnf to install libsmbios-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libsmbios-devel.
Install libsmbios-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 libsmbios-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libsmbios-devel
Install libsmbios-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 libsmbios-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libsmbios-devel
How To Uninstall libsmbios-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libsmbios-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libsmbios-devel
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsmbios-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
