How To Install urlview on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install urlview on Rocky Linux 8. urlview is URL extractor/launcher

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install urlview on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install urlview.

Install urlview on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install urlview

Install urlview on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install urlview

How To Uninstall urlview on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove urlview

urlview Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/urlview.conf
/usr/bin/url_handler.sh
/usr/bin/urlview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/09d1933fb26eeea62b0eab0f32149565934107
/usr/share/doc/urlview
/usr/share/doc/urlview/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/urlview/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/urlview/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/urlview/README
/usr/share/doc/urlview/sample.urlview
/usr/share/man/man1/url_handler.sh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/urlview.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/urlview.conf.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install urlview on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.