How To Install hercules on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hercules
on CentOS 7.
What is hercules
Hercules is an emulator for the IBM System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture series of mainframe computers. It is capable of running any IBM operating system and applications that a real system will run, as long as the hardware needed is emulated. Hercules can emulate FBA and CKD DASD, tape, printer, card reader, card punch, channel-to-channel adapter, LCS Ethernet, and printer-keyboard, 3270 terminal, and 3287 printer devices.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install hercules
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hercules.
Install hercules on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install hercules
using yum
by running the following command:
Install hercules 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.
After updating yum database, We can install hercules
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall hercules on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the hercules
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hercules
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.