How To Install nspr on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install nspr on CentOS 7. nspr is Netscape Portable Runtime

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nspr on CentOS 7.

What is nspr

NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory management (malloc and free) and shared library linking.

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

Install nspr on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install nspr using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nspr

Install nspr 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 nspr using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nspr

How To Uninstall nspr on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the nspr package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nspr

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Summary

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