How To Install cowsay on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cowsay on CentOS 7.
What is cowsay
cowsay is a configurable talking cow, written in Perl. It operates much as the figlet program does, and it written in the same spirit of silliness. It generates ASCII pictures of a cow with a message. It can also generate pictures of other animals.
We can use yum or dnf to install cowsay on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cowsay.
Install cowsay on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install cowsay using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cowsay
Install cowsay 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 cowsay using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cowsay
How To Uninstall cowsay on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the cowsay package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cowsay
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cowsay on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.