How To Install man-pages-overrides on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install man-pages-overrides on CentOS 7. man-pages-overrides is Complementary and updated manual pages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install man-pages-overrides on CentOS 7.

What is man-pages-overrides

A collection of manual (“man”) pages to complement other packages or update those contained therein. Always have the latest version of this package installed.

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

Install man-pages-overrides on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install man-pages-overrides using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install man-pages-overrides

Install man-pages-overrides 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 man-pages-overrides using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install man-pages-overrides

How To Uninstall man-pages-overrides on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the man-pages-overrides package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove man-pages-overrides

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install man-pages-overrides on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.