How To Install freexl on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install freexl on Rocky Linux 8. freexl is Library to extract data from within an Excel spreadsheet

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freexl on Rocky Linux 8.

What is freexl

FreeXL is a library to extract valid data from within an Excel spreadsheet (.xls) Design goals * simple and lightweight * stable, robust and efficient * easily and universally portable * completely ignore any GUI-related oddity

We can use yum or dnf to install freexl on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freexl.

Install freexl on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install freexl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freexl

Install freexl on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install freexl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freexl

How To Uninstall freexl on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the freexl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove freexl

freexl Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/91
/usr/lib/.build-id/91/658c75d764ce01a6bc0ea6b5d8d0d14ebb7e07
/usr/lib64/libfreexl.so.1
/usr/lib64/libfreexl.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/freexl
/usr/share/doc/freexl/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/freexl/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/freexl/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freexl on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.