How To Install rubygem-bigdecimal on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-bigdecimal on CentOS 7.
What is rubygem-bigdecimal
Ruby provides built-in support for arbitrary precision integer arithmetic. For example 42**13 -> 1265437718438866624512 BigDecimal provides similar support for very large or very accurate floating point numbers. Decimal arithmetic is also useful for general calculation, because it provides the correct answers people expect–whereas normal binary floating point arithmetic often introduces subtle errors because of the conversion between base 10 and base 2.
We can use yum or dnf to install rubygem-bigdecimal on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rubygem-bigdecimal.
Install rubygem-bigdecimal on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install rubygem-bigdecimal using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rubygem-bigdecimal
Install rubygem-bigdecimal 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 rubygem-bigdecimal using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rubygem-bigdecimal
How To Uninstall rubygem-bigdecimal on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rubygem-bigdecimal package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rubygem-bigdecimal
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-bigdecimal on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
