How To Install augeas on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install augeas
on CentOS 7.
What is augeas
A library for programmatically editing configuration files. Augeas parses configuration files into a tree structure, which it exposes through its public API. Changes made through the API are written back to the initially read files. The transformation works very hard to preserve comments and formatting details. It is controlled by ``lens’’ definitions that describe the file format and the transformation into a tree. This package attempts to be compatible with Augeas 1.1.0 as shipped in EL7.0, where possible.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install augeas
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install augeas.
Install augeas on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install augeas
using yum
by running the following command:
Install augeas 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.
After updating yum database, We can install augeas
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall augeas on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the augeas
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install augeas
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.