How To Install wayland-devel on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wayland-devel on CentOS 7.

What is wayland-devel

The wayland-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use wayland. The wayland-devel package contains libraries and header files for developing applications that use wayland.

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

Install wayland-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install wayland-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wayland-devel

Install wayland-devel 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 wayland-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wayland-devel

How To Uninstall wayland-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the wayland-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wayland-devel

References

• wayland-devel website

Summary

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