How To Install symlinks on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install symlinks
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install symlinks.
Install symlinks on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install symlinks
using yum
by running the following command:
Install symlinks 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 symlinks
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall symlinks on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the symlinks
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install symlinks
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.