How To Install yuicompressor on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yuicompressor on CentOS 7.
What is yuicompressor
The YUI Compressor is a JavaScript compressor which, in addition to removing comments and white-spaces, obfuscates local variables using the smallest possible variable name. This obfuscation is safe, even when using constructs such as ’eval’ or ‘with’ (although the compression is not optimal in those cases) Compared to jsmin, the average savings is around 20%. The YUI Compressor is also able to safely compress CSS files. The decision on which compressor is being used is made on the file extension (js or css).
We can use yum or dnf to install yuicompressor on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yuicompressor.
Install yuicompressor on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install yuicompressor using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install yuicompressor
Install yuicompressor 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 yuicompressor using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install yuicompressor
How To Uninstall yuicompressor on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the yuicompressor package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove yuicompressor
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yuicompressor on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.