How To Install xapian-core-devel on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is xapian-core-devel

Xapian is an Open Source Probabilistic Information Retrieval framework. It offers a highly adaptable toolkit that allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to applications. This package provides the files needed for building packages which use Xapian

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

Install xapian-core-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 xapian-core-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xapian-core-devel

Install xapian-core-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 xapian-core-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xapian-core-devel

How To Uninstall xapian-core-devel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove xapian-core-devel

References

• xapian-core-devel website

Summary

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