How To Install mingw32-pcre on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-pcre on CentOS 8.
What is mingw32-pcre
Cross compiled Perl-compatible regular expression library for use with mingw32. PCRE has its own native API, but a set of “wrapper” functions that are based on the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE themselves still follow Perl syntax and semantics. The header file for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h.
We can use yum or dnf to install mingw32-pcre on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw32-pcre.
Install mingw32-pcre on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mingw32-pcre using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mingw32-pcre
Install mingw32-pcre on CentOS 8 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 mingw32-pcre using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mingw32-pcre
How To Uninstall mingw32-pcre on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the mingw32-pcre package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mingw32-pcre
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-pcre on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.