How To Install preproc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install preproc on CentOS 8.
What is preproc
Simple text preprocessor implementing a very basic templating language. You can use bash code enclosed in triple braces in a text file and then pipe content of that file to preproc. preproc will replace each of the tags with stdout of the executed code and print the final renderred result to its own stdout.
We can use yum or dnf to install preproc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install preproc.
Install preproc 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 preproc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install preproc
Install preproc 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 preproc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install preproc
How To Uninstall preproc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the preproc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove preproc
preproc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/preproc
/usr/share/licenses/preproc
/usr/share/licenses/preproc/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/preproc.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install preproc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.