How To Install sword-utils on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install sword-utils in AlmaLinux 8. sword-utils is Utilities for the sword project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sword-utils on AlmaLinux 8.

What is sword-utils

This package contains the pre-built utilities for use with the SWORD Project. The SWORD Project developers encourage you to use the latest development version of the utilities rather than those released with a packaged release as updates to the utilities do not affect the release schedule of the library. However, these utilities were the latest at the time of the current library release.

We can use yum or dnf to install sword-utils on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sword-utils.

Install sword-utils on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install sword-utils

Install sword-utils on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install sword-utils

How To Uninstall sword-utils on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove sword-utils

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sword-utils on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.