How To Install unibilium on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install unibilium on CentOS 7. unibilium is Terminfo parsing library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install unibilium on CentOS 7.

What is unibilium

Unibilium is a very basic terminfo library. It doesn’t depend on curses or any other library. It also doesn’t use global variables, so it should be thread-safe.

We can use yum or dnf to install unibilium on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install unibilium.

Install unibilium on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install unibilium using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unibilium

Install unibilium 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 unibilium using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install unibilium

How To Uninstall unibilium on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the unibilium package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove unibilium

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install unibilium on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.