How To Install chmlib on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install chmlib on CentOS 7. chmlib is Library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chmlib on CentOS 7.

What is chmlib

CHMLIB is a library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files. Right now, it is a very simple library, but sufficient for dealing with all of the .chm files I’ve come across. Due to the fairly well-designed indexing built into this particular file format, even a small library is able to gain reasonably good performance indexing into ITSS archives.

We can use yum or dnf to install chmlib on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install chmlib.

Install chmlib on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install chmlib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install chmlib

Install chmlib 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 chmlib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install chmlib

How To Uninstall chmlib on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the chmlib package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove chmlib

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install chmlib on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.