How To Install neXtaw-devel on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install neXtaw-devel on CentOS 7.

What is neXtaw-devel

neXtaw is a replacement library for the Athena (libXaw) widget set. It is based on Xaw3d, by Kaleb Keithley and is almost 100% backward compatible with it. Its goal is to try to emulate the look and feel of the N*XTSTEP GUI. This package contains the development files of the neXtaw library.

We can use yum or dnf to install neXtaw-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install neXtaw-devel.

Install neXtaw-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 neXtaw-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install neXtaw-devel

Install neXtaw-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 neXtaw-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install neXtaw-devel

How To Uninstall neXtaw-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the neXtaw-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove neXtaw-devel

References

• neXtaw-devel website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install neXtaw-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.