How To Install grenum 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 geda-utils

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install geda-utils

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

What is grenum 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 grenum 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 grenum 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 grenum using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geda-utils

Install grenum on CentOS 8 using yum

Because grenum 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 grenum package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geda-utils

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update geda-utils

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade geda-utils

How to Upgrade grenum 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 geda-utils

How To remove grenum from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove geda-utils

Extra info and code examples

The gEDA project has produced and continues working on a full GPL'd suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools. These tools are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production. Currently, the gEDA project offers a mature suite of free software applications for electronics design, including schematic capture, attribute management, bill of materials (BOM) generation, netlisting into over 20 netlist formats, analog and digital simulation, and printed circuit board (PCB) layout. This package contains miscellaneous utilities related to gEDA.

Conclusion

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

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