How To Install expect-devel on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install expect-devel on CentOS 7.

What is expect-devel

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 development files for the expect library. 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 development files for the expect library.

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

Install expect-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install expect-devel

Install expect-devel 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 expect-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install expect-devel

How To Uninstall expect-devel on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the expect-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove expect-devel

References

• expect-devel website

Summary

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