How To Install gnucobol on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucobol on CentOS 7. gnucobol is COBOL compiler

Introduction

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

What is gnucobol

COBOL compiler, which translates COBOL programs to C code and compiles them using GCC.

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

Install gnucobol on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install gnucobol

Install gnucobol 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 gnucobol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnucobol

How To Uninstall gnucobol on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove gnucobol

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Summary

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