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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install symlinks using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install symlinks
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install symlinks using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install symlinks
How To Uninstall symlinks on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the symlinks package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove symlinks
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install symlinks on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
