How To Install ccmake on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install cmake

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install cmake

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is ccmake and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install ccmake on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install ccmake on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install ccmake using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cmake

Install ccmake on CentOS 8 using yum

Because ccmake is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install ccmake package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cmake

How to upgrade (update) a single package ccmake using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like ccmake in this example you should use the following command:

yum update cmake

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade cmake

How to Upgrade ccmake on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update cmake

How To remove ccmake from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the ccmake package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove cmake

Extra info and code examples

CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. CMake is quite sophisticated: it is possible to support complex environments requiring system configuration, pre-processor generation, code generation, and template instantiation. CMake was developed by Kitware as part of the NLM Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit project. The ASCI VIEWS project also provided support in the context of their parallel computation environment. Other sponsors include the Insight, VTK, and VXL open source software communities.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install ccmake using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the ccmake from CentOS 8.

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