How To Install aweather on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install aweather

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install aweather

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is aweather and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install aweather on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install aweather on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install aweather using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install aweather

Install aweather on CentOS 8 using yum

Because aweather is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install aweather package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aweather

How to upgrade (update) a single package aweather using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like aweather in this example you should use the following command:

yum update aweather

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade aweather

How to Upgrade aweather on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update aweather

How To remove aweather from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the aweather package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove aweather

Extra info and code examples

AWeather is an advanced weather program which is designed to be used by weather enthusiasts. AWeather is not a weather dockapp that simply displays a pre-computed forecast. It is designed to be an easy-to-use program that integrates a variety of weather data in a simple unified interface. AWeather currently supports radar and weather alerts from the United State National Weather Service.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install aweather using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the aweather from CentOS 8.

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