How To Install readline on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install readline
on CentOS 7.
What is readline
The Readline library provides a set of functions that allow users to edit command lines. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions for maintaining a list of previously-entered command lines for recalling or editing those lines, and for performing csh-like history expansion on previous commands.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install readline
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install readline.
Install readline on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install readline
using yum
by running the following command:
Install readline 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 readline
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall readline on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the readline
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install readline
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.