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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install pcre using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pcre
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install pcre using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pcre
How To Uninstall pcre on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pcre package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pcre
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcre on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
