How To Install expect on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install expect
on CentOS 7.
What is expect
Expect is a tcl application for automating and testing interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect makes it easy for a script to control another program and interact with it. This package contains expect and some scripts that use it.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install expect
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install expect.
Install expect on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install expect
using yum
by running the following command:
Install expect 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 expect
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall expect on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the expect
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install expect
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.