How To Install zlib on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zlib
on CentOS 7.
What is zlib
Zlib is a general-purpose, patent-free, lossless data compression library which is used by many different programs.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install zlib
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zlib.
Install zlib on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install zlib
using yum
by running the following command:
Install zlib 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.
After updating yum database, We can install zlib
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall zlib on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the zlib
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zlib
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.