How To Install elog on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elog on CentOS 7.
What is elog
ELOG is part of a family of applications known as weblogs. Their general purpose is 1. To make it easy for people to put information online in a chronological fashion, in the form of short, time-stamped text messages (“entries”) with optional HTML markup for presentation, and optional file attachments (images, archives, etc.) 2. To make it easy for other people to access this information through a Web interface, browse entries, search, download files, and optionally add, update, delete or comment on entries. ELOG is a remarkable implementation of a weblog in at least two respects 1. Its simplicity of use operator and/or an experimented database administrator to run ELOG ; one executable file (under Unix or Windows), a simple configuration text file, and it works. No Web server or relational database required. It is also easy to translate the interface to the appropriate language for your users. 2. Its versatility can be made to display an infinity of variants of the weblog concept. There are options for what to display, how to display it, what commands are available and to whom, access control, etc. Moreover, a single server can host several weblogs, and each weblog can be totally different from the rest.
We can use yum or dnf to install elog on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install elog.
Install elog on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install elog using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install elog
Install elog 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 elog using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install elog
How To Uninstall elog on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the elog package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove elog
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elog on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
