How To Install swig on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swig
on CentOS 7.
What is swig
Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG) is a software development tool for connecting C, C++ and Objective C programs with a variety of high-level programming languages. SWIG is primarily used with Perl, Python and Tcl/TK, but it has also been extended to Java, Eiffel and Guile. SWIG is normally used to create high-level interpreted programming environments, systems integration, and as a tool for building user interfaces
We can use yum
or dnf
to install swig
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install swig.
Install swig on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install swig
using yum
by running the following command:
Install swig 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 swig
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall swig on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the swig
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swig
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.