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