How To Install tcl-tclreadline on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcl-tclreadline on CentOS 8.
What is tcl-tclreadline
The tclreadline package makes the GNU Readline library available for interactive tcl shells. This includes history expansion and file/command completion. Command completion for all tcl/tk commands is provided and command completion for user defined commands can be easily added. Tclreadline can also be used for tcl scripts which want to use a shell like input interface.
We can use yum or dnf to install tcl-tclreadline on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcl-tclreadline.
Install tcl-tclreadline 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 tcl-tclreadline using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tcl-tclreadline
Install tcl-tclreadline 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 tcl-tclreadline using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcl-tclreadline
How To Uninstall tcl-tclreadline on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tcl-tclreadline package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tcl-tclreadline
tcl-tclreadline Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/1d1ce1fa698c78b0e6f95ec4db4656bd495a73
/usr/lib64/libtclreadline-2.1.0.so
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclreadline2.1.0
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclreadline2.1.0/libtclreadline.so
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclreadline2.1.0/pkgIndex.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclreadline2.1.0/tclreadlineCompleter.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclreadline2.1.0/tclreadlineInit.tcl
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclreadline2.1.0/tclreadlineSetup.tcl
/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclreadline
/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclreadline/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclreadline/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclreadline/README
/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclreadline/sample.tclshrc
/usr/share/licenses/tcl-tclreadline
/usr/share/licenses/tcl-tclreadline/COPYING
/usr/share/man/mann/tclreadline.n.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcl-tclreadline on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.