How To Install freexl on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freexl on CentOS 8.
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 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freexl.
Install freexl on CentOS 8 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 8 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 8
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 8 using yum and dnf.