How To Install x3270 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install x3270
on CentOS 7.
What is x3270
The x3270 package contains files needed for emulating the IBM 3278/3279 terminals, commonly used with mainframe applications. You will also need to install a frontend for x3270. Available frontends are x3270-x11 (for the X Window System) and x3270-text (for text mode).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install x3270
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install x3270.
Install x3270 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install x3270
using yum
by running the following command:
Install x3270 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.
After updating yum database, We can install x3270
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall x3270 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the x3270
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install x3270
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.