How To Install dictd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dictd
on CentOS 7.
What is dictd
Command-line client for the DICT protocol. The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) is a TCP transaction based query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dictd
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dictd.
Install dictd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dictd
using yum
by running the following command:
Install dictd 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.
After updating yum database, We can install dictd
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall dictd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dictd
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dictd
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.