How To Install vte3 on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install vte3 on CentOS 7. vte3 is Terminal emulator library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vte3 on CentOS 7.

What is vte3

VTE is a library implementing a terminal emulator widget for GTK+. VTE is mainly used in gnome-terminal, but can also be used to embed a console/terminal in games, editors, IDEs, etc. VTE supports Unicode and character set conversion, as well as emulating any terminal known to the system’s terminfo database. VTE is a library implementing a terminal emulator widget for GTK+. VTE is mainly used in gnome-terminal, but can also be used to embed a console/terminal in games, editors, IDEs, etc. VTE supports Unicode and character set conversion, as well as emulating any terminal known to the system’s terminfo database.

We can use yum or dnf to install vte3 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vte3.

Install vte3 on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install vte3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vte3

Install vte3 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 vte3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vte3

How To Uninstall vte3 on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the vte3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove vte3

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vte3 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.