How To Install cxref-cpp-configure 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 cxref

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install cxref

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

What is cxref-cpp-configure 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 cxref-cpp-configure 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 cxref-cpp-configure 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 cxref-cpp-configure using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cxref

Install cxref-cpp-configure on CentOS 8 using yum

Because cxref-cpp-configure 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 cxref-cpp-configure package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cxref

How to upgrade (update) a single package cxref-cpp-configure using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like cxref-cpp-configure in this example you should use the following command:

yum update cxref

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade cxref

How to Upgrade cxref-cpp-configure 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 cxref

How To remove cxref-cpp-configure from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cxref-cpp-configure package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove cxref

Extra info and code examples

A program that takes as input a series of C source files and produces a LaTeX or HTML document containing a cross reference of the files/functions/variables in the program, including documentation taken from suitably formatted source code comments. The documentation is stored in the C source file in specially formatted comments, making it simple to maintain. The cross referencing includes lists of functions called, callers of each function, usage of global variables, header file inclusion, macro definitions and type definitions. Works for ANSI C, including many gcc extensions.

Conclusion

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

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