How To Install symlinks on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install symlinks
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is symlinks
The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links. Symlinks checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks which point to nonexistent files. Symlinks can also automatically convert absolute symlinks to relative symlinks. Install the symlinks package if you need a program for maintaining symlinks on your system.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install symlinks
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install symlinks.
Install symlinks 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 symlinks
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install symlinks
Install symlinks 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 symlinks
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install symlinks
How To Uninstall symlinks on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the symlinks
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove symlinks
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install symlinks
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.