How To Install ack on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ack
on CentOS 7.
What is ack
Ack is designed as a replacement for grep.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ack
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ack.
Install ack on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ack
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ack
Install ack on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ack
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ack
How To Uninstall ack on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ack
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ack
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ack
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.