How To Install lv on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install lv on CentOS 7. lv is A Powerful Multilingual File Viewer

Introduction

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

What is lv

lv is a powerful file viewer like less. lv can decode and encode multilingual streams through many coding systems HZ, Unicode. It recognizes multi-bytes patterns as regular expressions, lv also provides multilingual grep. In addition, lv can recognize ANSI escape sequences for text decoration.

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

Install lv on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install lv

Install lv 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 lv using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lv

How To Uninstall lv on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove lv

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Summary

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