How To Install pixman on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pixman on CentOS 7.
What is pixman
Pixman is a pixel manipulation library for X and cairo. Pixman is a pixel manipulation library for X and cairo.
We can use yum or dnf to install pixman on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pixman.
Install pixman on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install pixman using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pixman
Install pixman 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 pixman using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pixman
How To Uninstall pixman on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pixman package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pixman
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pixman on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
