How To Install oniguruma on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install oniguruma on CentOS 7. oniguruma is Regular expressions library

Introduction

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

What is oniguruma

Oniguruma is a regular expressions library. The characteristics of this library is that different character encoding for every regular expression object can be specified. (supported APIs

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

Install oniguruma on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install oniguruma

Install oniguruma 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 oniguruma using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install oniguruma

How To Uninstall oniguruma on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove oniguruma

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Summary

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