How To Install coreutils on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install coreutils on CentOS 7.
What is coreutils
These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install coreutils on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install coreutils.
Install coreutils on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install coreutils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install coreutils
Install coreutils 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 coreutils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install coreutils
How To Uninstall coreutils on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the coreutils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove coreutils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install coreutils on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
