How To Install tcl-tclreadline on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcl-tclreadline
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is tcl-tclreadline
The tclreadline package makes the GNU Readline library available for interactive tcl shells. This includes history expansion and file/command completion. Command completion for all tcl/tk commands is provided and command completion for user defined commands can be easily added. Tclreadline can also be used for tcl scripts which want to use a shell like input interface.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install tcl-tclreadline
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcl-tclreadline.
Install tcl-tclreadline 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 tcl-tclreadline
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tcl-tclreadline
Install tcl-tclreadline 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 tcl-tclreadline
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcl-tclreadline
How To Uninstall tcl-tclreadline on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the tcl-tclreadline
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tcl-tclreadline
tcl-tclreadline Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/1d1ce1fa698c78b0e6f95ec4db4656bd495a73
/usr/lib64/libtclreadline-2.1.0.so
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclreadline2.1.0
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclreadline2.1.0/libtclreadline.so
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclreadline2.1.0/pkgIndex.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclreadline2.1.0/tclreadlineCompleter.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclreadline2.1.0/tclreadlineInit.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclreadline2.1.0/tclreadlineSetup.tcl
/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclreadline
/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclreadline/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclreadline/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclreadline/README
/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclreadline/sample.tclshrc
/usr/share/licenses/tcl-tclreadline
/usr/share/licenses/tcl-tclreadline/COPYING
/usr/share/man/mann/tclreadline.n.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcl-tclreadline
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.