How To Install vala on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vala on CentOS 7.
What is vala
Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C. valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source code. It’s also planned to generate GIDL files when gobject- introspection is ready. The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the GObject type system. Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C. valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source code. It’s also planned to generate GIDL files when gobject- introspection is ready. The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the GObject type system.
We can use yum or dnf to install vala on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vala.
Install vala on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install vala using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vala
Install vala 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 vala using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vala
How To Uninstall vala on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the vala package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vala
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vala on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
