How To Install urlview on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install urlview on CentOS 8.
What is urlview
urlview is a screen oriented program for extracting URLs from text files and displaying a menu from which you may launch a command to view a specific item.
We can use yum or dnf to install urlview on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install urlview.
Install urlview 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 urlview using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install urlview
Install urlview 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 urlview using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install urlview
How To Uninstall urlview on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the urlview package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove urlview
urlview Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/urlview.conf
/usr/bin/url_handler.sh
/usr/bin/urlview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/2c814a313d5accd821c22c6c23adf445fbc803
/usr/share/doc/urlview
/usr/share/doc/urlview/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/urlview/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/urlview/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/urlview/README
/usr/share/doc/urlview/sample.urlview
/usr/share/man/man1/url_handler.sh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/urlview.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/urlview.conf.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install urlview on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.