How To Install freexl on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freexl on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freexl.
Install freexl 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 freexl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freexl
Install freexl 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 freexl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freexl
How To Uninstall freexl on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the freexl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freexl
freexl Package Contents on CentOS 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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.