How To Install php-pear-text-wiki on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pear-text-wiki on CentOS 7. php-pear-text-wiki is Transforms Wiki and BBCode markup into XHTML, LaTeX or plain text

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pear-text-wiki on CentOS 7.

What is php-pear-text-wiki

Transforms Wiki and BBCode markup into XHTML, LaTeX or plain text markup. This is the base engine for all of the Text_Wiki sub-classes The text transformation is done in 2 steps. The chosen parser uses markup rules to tokenize the tags and content. Renderers output the tokens and text into the requested format. The tokenized form replaces the tags by a protected byte value associated to an index in an options table. This form shares up to 50 rules by all parsers and renderers. The package is intented for versatile transformers as well as converters. Text_Wiki is delivered with its own parser, which is used by Yawiki or Horde’s Wicked and three basic renderers , LaTeX and plain text. Strong sanitizing of XHTML is default. Parsers and Renderers exist for BBCode, Cowiki, Dokuwiki, Mediawiki and Tikiwiki. It is highly configurable and can be easily extended.

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

Install php-pear-text-wiki on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install php-pear-text-wiki using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install php-pear-text-wiki

Install php-pear-text-wiki 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 php-pear-text-wiki using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install php-pear-text-wiki

How To Uninstall php-pear-text-wiki on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the php-pear-text-wiki package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove php-pear-text-wiki

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pear-text-wiki on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.