How To Install urlview on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install urlview on CentOS 7. urlview is URL extractor/launcher

Introduction

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

What is urlview

urlview is a screen oriented program for extracting URLs from text files and displaying a menu from which you may launch a command to view a specific item.

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

Install urlview on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install urlview

Install urlview 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 urlview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install urlview

How To Uninstall urlview on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove urlview

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Summary

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