How To Install libtevent on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtevent on CentOS 7.
What is libtevent
Tevent is an event system based on the talloc memory management library. Tevent has support for many event types, including timers, signals, and the classic file descriptor events. Tevent also provide helpers to deal with asynchronous code providing the tevent_req (Tevent Request) functions. Tevent is an event system based on the talloc memory management library. Tevent has support for many event types, including timers, signals, and the classic file descriptor events. Tevent also provide helpers to deal with asynchronous code providing the tevent_req (Tevent Request) functions.
We can use yum or dnf to install libtevent on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libtevent.
Install libtevent on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libtevent using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libtevent
Install libtevent 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 libtevent using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libtevent
How To Uninstall libtevent on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libtevent package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libtevent
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtevent on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
