How To Install tcl-tclreadline on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcl-tclreadline on CentOS 7.
What is tcl-tclreadline
The tclreadline package makes the GNU Readline library available for interactive tcl shells. This includes history expansion and file/command completion. Command completion for all tcl/tk commands is provided and command completion for user defined commands can be easily added. Tclreadline can also be used for tcl scripts which want to use a shell like input interface.
We can use yum or dnf to install tcl-tclreadline on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcl-tclreadline.
Install tcl-tclreadline on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tcl-tclreadline using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcl-tclreadline
Install tcl-tclreadline 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 tcl-tclreadline using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tcl-tclreadline
How To Uninstall tcl-tclreadline on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the tcl-tclreadline package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tcl-tclreadline
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcl-tclreadline on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
