How To Install boxes on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install boxes on CentOS 7.
What is boxes
“boxes” is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. These boxes may also be removed, even if they have been badly damaged by editing of the text inside. Since boxes may be open on any side, boxes can also be used to create regional comments in any programming language. With the help of an editor macro or mapping, damaged boxes can easily be repaired. This is useful for making the function headers in your programming language look better, for spicing up your news postings and emails, or just for decorating your documentation files. New box designs of all sorts can easily be added and shared by appending to a free format configuration file. boxes was intended to be used with the vim text editor, but can be tied to any text editor which supports filters.
We can use yum or dnf to install boxes on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install boxes.
Install boxes on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install boxes using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install boxes
Install boxes 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 boxes using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install boxes
How To Uninstall boxes on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the boxes package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove boxes
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install boxes on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.