How To Install ghc-tagsoup on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-tagsoup on CentOS 7. ghc-tagsoup is Parsing and extracting from HTML/XML documents

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-tagsoup on CentOS 7.

What is ghc-tagsoup

TagSoup is a library for parsing HTML/XML. It supports the HTML 5 specification, and can be used to parse either well-formed XML, or unstructured and malformed HTML from the web. The library also provides useful functions to extract information from an HTML document, making it ideal for screen-scraping. Users should start from the “Text.HTML.TagSoup” module.

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

Install ghc-tagsoup on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install ghc-tagsoup

Install ghc-tagsoup 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 ghc-tagsoup using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc-tagsoup

How To Uninstall ghc-tagsoup on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the ghc-tagsoup package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ghc-tagsoup

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Summary

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