How To Install rlwrap on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rlwrap
on CentOS 7.
What is rlwrap
rlwrap is a ‘readline wrapper’ that uses the GNU readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any other command. Input history is remembered across invocations, separately for each command; history completion and search work as in bash and completion word lists can be specified on the command line.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install rlwrap
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rlwrap.
Install rlwrap on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rlwrap
using yum
by running the following command:
Install rlwrap 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 rlwrap
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall rlwrap on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rlwrap
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rlwrap
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.