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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install hercules using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hercules
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install hercules using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hercules
How To Uninstall hercules on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the hercules package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hercules
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hercules on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
