How To Install planet on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install planet on CentOS 7. planet is Flexible RDF/RSS/Atom feed aggregator

Introduction

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

What is planet

Planet is a flexible feed aggregator, this means that it downloads feeds and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed with the latest news first. It uses Mark Pilgrim’s Ultra-liberal feed parser so can read from RDF, RSS and Atom feeds and Tomas Styblo’s template library to output static files in unlimited formats based on a series of templates.

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

Install planet on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install planet

Install planet 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 planet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install planet

How To Uninstall planet on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove planet

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Summary

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