How To Install ptlib on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ptlib
on CentOS 7.
What is ptlib
PTLib (Portable Tools Library) is a moderately large class library that has it’s genesis many years ago as PWLib (portable Windows Library), a method to product applications to run on both Microsoft Windows and Unix systems. It has also been ported to other systems such as Mac OSX, VxWorks and other embedded systems. It is supplied mainly to support the OPAL project, but that shouldn’t stop you from using it in whatever project you have in mind if you so desire. PTLib (Portable Tools Library) is a moderately large class library that has it’s genesis many years ago as PWLib (portable Windows Library), a method to product applications to run on both Microsoft Windows and Unix systems. It has also been ported to other systems such as Mac OSX, VxWorks and other embedded systems. It is supplied mainly to support the OPAL project, but that shouldn’t stop you from using it in whatever project you have in mind if you so desire.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ptlib
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ptlib.
Install ptlib on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ptlib
using yum
by running the following command:
Install ptlib 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.
After updating yum database, We can install ptlib
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ptlib on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ptlib
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ptlib
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.