How To Install meson on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install meson on CentOS 7.
What is meson
Meson is a build system designed to optimize programmer productivity. It aims to do this by providing simple, out-of-the-box support for modern software development tools and practices, such as unit tests, coverage reports, Valgrind, CCache and the like.
We can use yum or dnf to install meson on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install meson.
Install meson on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install meson using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install meson
Install meson 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 meson using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install meson
How To Uninstall meson on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the meson package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove meson
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install meson on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.