How To Install fpaste on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install fpaste on CentOS 7. fpaste is A simple tool for pasting info onto sticky notes instances

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fpaste on CentOS 7.

What is fpaste

It is often useful to be able to easily paste text to the Fedora Pastebin at http will do that and return the resulting URL so that people may examine the output. This can hopefully help folks who are for some reason stuck without X, working remotely, or any other reason they may be unable to paste something into the pastebin

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

Install fpaste on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install fpaste using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fpaste

Install fpaste 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 fpaste using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fpaste

How To Uninstall fpaste on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the fpaste package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fpaste

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Summary

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