How To Install officeparser on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install officeparser on CentOS 7. officeparser is Parse the format of OLE compound documents used by MS Office

Introduction

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

What is officeparser

Python script officeparser.py that parses the format of OLE compound documents used by Microsoft Office applications. Some useful features of this script include file extraction, format analysis.

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

Install officeparser on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install officeparser

Install officeparser 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 officeparser using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install officeparser

How To Uninstall officeparser on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove officeparser

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Summary

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