How To Install libedit on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libedit
on CentOS 7.
What is libedit
Libedit is an autotool- and libtoolized port of the NetBSD Editline library. It provides generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions, similar to those found in GNU Readline. Libedit is an autotool- and libtoolized port of the NetBSD Editline library. It provides generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions, similar to those found in GNU Readline.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libedit
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libedit.
Install libedit on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libedit
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libedit 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 libedit
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libedit on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libedit
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libedit
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.