How To Install rpl on CentOS 8

rpl is Intelligent recursive search/replace utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rpl on CentOS 8.

What is rpl

rpl is a UN*X text replacement utility. It will replace strings with new strings in multiple text files. It can work recursively over directories and supports limiting the search to specific file suffixes. rpl was originally written by Joe Laffey; this is a rewritten version.

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

Install rpl 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 rpl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rpl

Install rpl 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 rpl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rpl

How To Uninstall rpl on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the rpl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rpl

rpl Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/rpl
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rpl-1.5.7-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rpl-1.5.7-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rpl-1.5.7-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rpl-1.5.7-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rpl-1.5.7-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/share/doc/rpl
/usr/share/doc/rpl/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/rpl/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/rpl.1.gz

References

Summary

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