How To Install whereami on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install whereami on CentOS 7.
What is whereami
Whereami displays information about the machine(location) you are working on. Information like terminal name, present working directory, host name, and the host IP address. This is extremely useful for those who tend to work remotely on several machines at the same time.
We can use yum or dnf to install whereami on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install whereami.
Install whereami on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install whereami using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install whereami
Install whereami 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 whereami using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install whereami
How To Uninstall whereami on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the whereami package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove whereami
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install whereami on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
