How To Install vala-doc on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install vala-doc on CentOS 7. vala-doc is Documentation for vala

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vala-doc on CentOS 7.

What is vala-doc

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. This package contains documentation in a devhelp HTML book.

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

Install vala-doc 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-doc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vala-doc

Install vala-doc 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-doc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vala-doc

How To Uninstall vala-doc on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the vala-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove vala-doc

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Summary

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