How To Install eclipse-filesystem on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-filesystem on CentOS 7.

What is eclipse-filesystem

This package provides directories needed by the Eclipse platform and other Eclipse plug-ins. This is abstracted out of the main Eclipse package due to the need to build some Eclipse plug-ins before the Eclipse platform itself without introducing circular dependencies.

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

Install eclipse-filesystem on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install eclipse-filesystem using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install eclipse-filesystem

Install eclipse-filesystem 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 eclipse-filesystem using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install eclipse-filesystem

How To Uninstall eclipse-filesystem on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the eclipse-filesystem package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove eclipse-filesystem

References

• eclipse-filesystem website

Summary

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