How To Install pinfo on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pinfo
on CentOS 7.
What is pinfo
Pinfo is an info file (or man page) viewer with a user interface similar to the Lynx Web browser’s interface. Pinfo supports searching using regular expressions, and is based on the ncurses library.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install pinfo
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pinfo.
Install pinfo on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install pinfo
using yum
by running the following command:
Install pinfo 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 pinfo
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall pinfo on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pinfo
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pinfo
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.