How to Install CMake 3.0 on CentOS 6 / CentOS 7

On By xinyustudioIn Linux, Programming

Follow the step below to install CMake 3.0 on CentOS 7:

  • Download cmake-3.0.0.tar.gz to a folder, e.g. /home/user/Downloads
  • Open a terminal and run below commands:

tar -zxvf cmake-3.0.0.tar.gz

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     This will unpack the gz file to a folder cmake-3.0.0 under the Downloads folder

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  • In the terminal and run below commands:

cmake-3.0.0
./bootstrap
gmake
sudo gmake install

    It will take several minutes to build cmake out of source files.

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But If you run the command below, you will see the cmake version is still the old 2.82 or earlier version!

cmake –version

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  • Now in the terminal, type below commands

sudo mv cmake-3.0.0 /usr/local/

    This move the newly built output folder

Downloads/cmake-3.0.0/       ==>
/usr/local/cmake-3.0.0/

  • Edit ~/.bashrc file, add the directory /usr/local/cmake-3.0.0/bin to the PATH variable:

gedit ~/.bashrc

    At the end of .bashrc file, add below line to add the cmake/bin folder to system path:

PATH=/usr/local/cmake-3.0.0/bin:$PATH
export PATH

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  • Next, in the terminal, type below commands

cd /usr/local/cmake-3.0.0
mkdir share
cp -R /usr/local/share/cmake-3.0/ share/

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This copies folder
     usr/local/share/cmake-3.0/       ==>
     usr/local/cmake-3.0.0/share/

If you don’t do so, errors will pop up and complain that the share folder is not accessible to centOS!

Now, rerun the below command and you will succeed! 

cmake –version

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8 thoughts on “How to Install CMake 3.0 on CentOS 6 / CentOS 7”

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  7. jimbomorrison

    Works for me (thanks!) … though warning copying/pasting the cmake -version failed because the - character was odd… writing it out tho shows the correct version.

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