How To Install saxon on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install saxon on CentOS 7.
What is saxon
Saxon HE is Saxonica’s non-schema-aware implementation of the XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, and XQuery 1.0 specifications aligned with the W3C Candidate Recommendation published on 3 November 2005. It is a complete and conformant implementation, providing all the mandatory features of those specifications and nearly all the optional features.
We can use yum or dnf to install saxon on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install saxon.
Install saxon on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install saxon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install saxon
Install saxon 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 saxon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install saxon
How To Uninstall saxon on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the saxon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove saxon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install saxon on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
