How To Install freexl on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install freexl on CentOS 7. freexl is Library to extract data from within an Excel spreadsheet

Introduction

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

What is freexl

FreeXL is a library to extract valid data from within an Excel spreadsheet (.xls) Design goals * simple and lightweight * stable, robust and efficient * easily and universally portable * completely ignore any GUI-related oddity

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

Install freexl on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install freexl

Install freexl 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 freexl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freexl

How To Uninstall freexl on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove freexl

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Summary

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