How To Install root-cli on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install root-cli on CentOS 8.
What is root-cli
The ROOT command line utilities is a set of scripts for common tasks written in python.
We can use yum or dnf to install root-cli on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install root-cli.
Install root-cli 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 root-cli using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install root-cli
Install root-cli 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 root-cli using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install root-cli
How To Uninstall root-cli on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the root-cli package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove root-cli
root-cli Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/rootbrowse
/usr/bin/rootcp
/usr/bin/rootdrawtree
/usr/bin/rooteventselector
/usr/bin/rootls
/usr/bin/rootmkdir
/usr/bin/rootmv
/usr/bin/rootprint
/usr/bin/rootrm
/usr/bin/rootslimtree
/usr/share/root/cli
/usr/share/root/cli/__pycache__
/usr/share/root/cli/__pycache__/cmdLineUtils.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/share/root/cli/__pycache__/cmdLineUtils.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/share/root/cli/cmdLineUtils.py
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install root-cli on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.