How To Install qtsinglecoreapplication on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install qtsinglecoreapplication on CentOS 7. qtsinglecoreapplication is Qt library to start applications only once per user

Introduction

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

What is qtsinglecoreapplication

For some applications it is useful or even critical that they are started only once by any user. Future attempts to start the application should activate any already running instance, and possibly perform requested actions, e.g. loading a file, in that instance. For console (non-GUI) applications, the QtSingleCoreApplication variant is provided, which avoids dependency on QtGui.

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

Install qtsinglecoreapplication on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install qtsinglecoreapplication

Install qtsinglecoreapplication 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 qtsinglecoreapplication using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qtsinglecoreapplication

How To Uninstall qtsinglecoreapplication on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove qtsinglecoreapplication

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Summary

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