How To Install wiredtiger-devel on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is wiredtiger-devel

The wiredtiger-devel package provides the WiredTiger development files.

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

Install wiredtiger-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 wiredtiger-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wiredtiger-devel

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

sudo dnf -y install wiredtiger-devel

How To Uninstall wiredtiger-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove wiredtiger-devel

References

• wiredtiger-devel website

Summary

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