How To Install clang-tblgen-3.9 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 libclang-common-3.9-dev

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install libclang-common-3.9-dev

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

What is clang-tblgen-3.9 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 clang-tblgen-3.9 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 clang-tblgen-3.9 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 clang-tblgen-3.9 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libclang-common-3.9-dev

Install clang-tblgen-3.9 on CentOS 8 using yum

Because clang-tblgen-3.9 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 clang-tblgen-3.9 package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libclang-common-3.9-dev

How to upgrade (update) a single package clang-tblgen-3.9 using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like clang-tblgen-3.9 in this example you should use the following command:

yum update libclang-common-3.9-dev

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade libclang-common-3.9-dev

How to Upgrade clang-tblgen-3.9 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 libclang-common-3.9-dev

How To remove clang-tblgen-3.9 from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the clang-tblgen-3.9 package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove libclang-common-3.9-dev

Extra info and code examples

Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end for the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Clang fully implements all published ISO C++ standards including C++11, as well as the upcoming C++14 standard, and some parts of the fledgling C++1z standard, and is considered a production-quality C++ compiler. This package contains the clang generic headers and some libraries (profiling, etc).

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install clang-tblgen-3.9 using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the clang-tblgen-3.9 from CentOS 8.

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