How To Install ccontrol 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 ccontrol

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install ccontrol

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

What is ccontrol 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 ccontrol 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 ccontrol 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 ccontrol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ccontrol

Install ccontrol on CentOS 8 using yum

Because ccontrol 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 ccontrol package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ccontrol

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update ccontrol

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade ccontrol

How to Upgrade ccontrol 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 ccontrol

How To remove ccontrol from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove ccontrol

Extra info and code examples

The ccontrol program takes over the roles of the compiler, linker and make, and reads a configuration file to decide what to do before invoking them. This is particularly useful for centralized control over commands and options, such as enabling distcc and ccache. It is also great for controlling parallelism and which compiler versions to use, based on the directory and make targets.

Conclusion

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

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