How To Install pth on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pth on CentOS 7.
What is pth
Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution (“multithreading”) inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space of the server application, but each thread has it’s own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.
We can use yum or dnf to install pth on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pth.
Install pth on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install pth using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pth
Install pth 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 pth using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pth
How To Uninstall pth on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pth package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pth
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pth on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
