How To Install xml-common on CentOS 8

xml-common is Common XML catalog and DTD files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xml-common on CentOS 8.

What is xml-common

The xml-common is a subpackage of sgml-common which contains a collection XML catalogs that are useful for processing XML, but that don’t need to be included in main package.

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

Install xml-common 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 xml-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xml-common

Install xml-common 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 xml-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xml-common

How To Uninstall xml-common on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the xml-common package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove xml-common

xml-common Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/sgml
/etc/sgml/docbook
/etc/sgml/docbook/xmlcatalog
/etc/xml
/etc/xml/catalog
/usr/share/doc/xml-common
/usr/share/doc/xml-common/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xml-common/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xml-common/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xml-common/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xml-common/README
/usr/share/sgml
/usr/share/sgml/docbook
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xmlcatalog
/usr/share/xml
/usr/share/xml/XMLSchema.dtd
/usr/share/xml/datatypes.dtd
/usr/share/xml/xml.xsd
/usr/share/xml/xmldsig-core-schema.xsd

References

Summary

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