How To Install rubygem-ffi on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-ffi
on CentOS 7.
What is rubygem-ffi
Ruby-FFI is a ruby extension for programmatically loading dynamic libraries, binding functions within them, and calling those functions from Ruby code. Moreover, a Ruby-FFI extension works without changes on Ruby and JRuby. Discover why should you write your next extension using Ruby-FFI here[http
We can use yum
or dnf
to install rubygem-ffi
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rubygem-ffi.
Install rubygem-ffi on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rubygem-ffi
using yum
by running the following command:
Install rubygem-ffi 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 rubygem-ffi
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall rubygem-ffi on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rubygem-ffi
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-ffi
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.