Install vips, vips-tools and vips-devel (libvips) on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we will talk about how to install vips, vips-tools and vips-devel (libvips) on CentOS 7. These packages can be required for various reasons like for example during installation of some NodeJS packages like GraphQL. Vips tools and development packages can be easily obtained and installed from Remi repo, unfortunately by default these packages are not present on CentOS repos. So let’s start our short step by step tutorial tutorial about installing Vips on CentOS 7.

Table of contents

Install Epel repo
Install yum-utils
Install and enable Remi repo
Install vips (libvips)

Install Epel repo

On our very first step we’ll have to install epel-release repository, this particular package will allow us to install yum-utils needed later for Remi repo, but for now lets start by installing Epel repository like show in the example below:

$ yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

Install yum-utils

Once epel-release installation is completed we can move to our second major step where we have to install yum-utils. As we said before this particular package will help us later to make use yum-config-manager utility in order to enable Remi repo:

$ yum install yum-utils

Install and enable Remi repo

Now it is time to install and enable Remi repository, so please follow the example below:

$ yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
$ yum-config-manager --enable remi

Install vips (libvips)

Finally our last step, here we’ll install the missing vips packages, libvips (+ development files and command-line tools):

$ yum install vips vips-devel vips-tools

This is the part where our short tutorial ends, we have managed to install vips, vips-tools and vips-devel packages on CentOS 7 in just a few minutes, quick and easy.