How To Install php-bacon-qr-code on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-bacon-qr-code on CentOS 7. php-bacon-qr-code is QR code generator for PHP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-bacon-qr-code on CentOS 7.

What is php-bacon-qr-code

BaconQrCode is a port of QR code portion of the ZXing library. It currently only features the encoder part, but could later receive the decoder part as well. As the Reed Solomon codec implementation of the ZXing library performs quite slow in PHP, it was exchanged with the implementation by Phil Karn. Autoloader

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

Install php-bacon-qr-code on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install php-bacon-qr-code using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install php-bacon-qr-code

Install php-bacon-qr-code 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 php-bacon-qr-code using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install php-bacon-qr-code

How To Uninstall php-bacon-qr-code on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the php-bacon-qr-code package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove php-bacon-qr-code

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-bacon-qr-code on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.