How To Install catdoc on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install catdoc on CentOS 7.
What is catdoc
catdoc is program which reads one or more Microsoft word files and outputs text, contained insinde them to standard output. Therefore it does same work for.doc files, as unix cat command for plain ASCII files. It is now accompanied by xls2csv - program which converts Excel spreadsheet into comma-separated value file, and catppt - utility to extract textual information from Powerpoint files
We can use yum or dnf to install catdoc on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install catdoc.
Install catdoc on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install catdoc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install catdoc
Install catdoc 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 catdoc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install catdoc
How To Uninstall catdoc on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the catdoc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove catdoc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install catdoc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
