How To Install tcsh on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcsh on CentOS 8.
What is tcsh
Tcsh is an enhanced but completely compatible version of csh, the C shell. Tcsh is a command language interpreter which can be used both as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Tcsh includes a command line editor, programmable word completion, spelling correction, a history mechanism, job control and a C language like syntax.
We can use yum or dnf to install tcsh on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcsh.
Install tcsh 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 tcsh using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tcsh
Install tcsh 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 tcsh using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcsh
How To Uninstall tcsh on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tcsh package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tcsh
tcsh Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/csh
/usr/bin/tcsh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/0dd04aca1e8211a0e1a832acb73d74cd03e4da
/usr/share/doc/tcsh
/usr/share/doc/tcsh/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/tcsh/Fixes
/usr/share/doc/tcsh/README.md
/usr/share/doc/tcsh/complete.tcsh
/usr/share/licenses/tcsh
/usr/share/licenses/tcsh/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/tcsh
/usr/share/man/man1/csh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tcsh.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcsh on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.