How To Install pcre on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre
on CentOS 7.
What is pcre
Perl-compatible regular expression library. 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 Perl syntax and semantics. The header file for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install pcre
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcre.
Install pcre on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install pcre
using yum
by running the following command:
Install pcre 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.
After updating yum database, We can install pcre
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall pcre on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pcre
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.