How To Install sensible-utils on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install sensible-utils on CentOS 7. sensible-utils is Utilities for sensible alternative selection

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sensible-utils on CentOS 7.

What is sensible-utils

This package provides a number of small utilities which are used by programs to sensibly select and spawn an appropriate browser, editor, or pager.

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

Install sensible-utils on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install sensible-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sensible-utils

Install sensible-utils 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 sensible-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sensible-utils

How To Uninstall sensible-utils on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the sensible-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sensible-utils

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Summary

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