How To Install mozilla-adblockplus on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install mozilla-adblockplus on CentOS 7. mozilla-adblockplus is Adblocking extension for Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mozilla-adblockplus on CentOS 7.

What is mozilla-adblockplus

Adblock Plus is a content-filtering extension for the Mozilla Firefox- and Mozilla Application Suite-based web browsers. Adblock Plus allows users to prevent page elements, such as advertisements, from being downloaded and displayed. It features improvements to the user interface, filter subscriptions, and element hiding over the original Adblock extension.

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

Install mozilla-adblockplus on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install mozilla-adblockplus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mozilla-adblockplus

Install mozilla-adblockplus 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 mozilla-adblockplus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mozilla-adblockplus

How To Uninstall mozilla-adblockplus on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the mozilla-adblockplus package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mozilla-adblockplus

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Summary

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