How To Install xapian-bindings on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xapian-bindings on CentOS 7.
What is xapian-bindings
Xapian is an Open Source Probabilistic Information Retrieval Library. It offers a highly adaptable toolkit that allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to applications. This package provides the files needed for scripts which use Xapian.
We can use yum or dnf to install xapian-bindings on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xapian-bindings.
Install xapian-bindings on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install xapian-bindings using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xapian-bindings
Install xapian-bindings 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 xapian-bindings using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xapian-bindings
How To Uninstall xapian-bindings on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the xapian-bindings package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xapian-bindings
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xapian-bindings on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
