How To Install erlang-xmerl on CentOS 8

erlang-xmerl is Provides support for XML 1.0

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-xmerl on CentOS 8.

What is erlang-xmerl

Provides support for XML 1.0.

We can use yum or dnf to install erlang-xmerl on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install erlang-xmerl.

Install erlang-xmerl on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install erlang-xmerl

Install erlang-xmerl on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install erlang-xmerl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install erlang-xmerl

How To Uninstall erlang-xmerl on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the erlang-xmerl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove erlang-xmerl

erlang-xmerl Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl.app
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl.appup
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_b64Bin.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_b64Bin_scan.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_eventp.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_html.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_lib.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_otpsgml.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_regexp.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_sax_old_dom.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_sax_parser.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_sax_parser_latin1.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_sax_parser_list.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_sax_parser_utf16be.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_sax_parser_utf16le.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_sax_parser_utf8.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_sax_simple_dom.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_scan.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_sgml.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_simple.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_text.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_ucs.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_uri.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_validate.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_xlate.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_xml.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_xpath.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_xpath_lib.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_xpath_parse.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_xpath_pred.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_xpath_scan.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_xs.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_xsd.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/ebin/xmerl_xsd_type.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/include
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/include/xmerl.hrl
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/include/xmerl_xpath.hrl
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/include/xmerl_xsd.hrl
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/src
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/src/xmerl_internal.hrl
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/src/xmerl_sax_old_dom.hrl
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/xmerl-1.3.21/src/xmerl_sax_parser.hrl

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-xmerl on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.