How To Install today 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 mhc-utils

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

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

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

sudo dnf -y install mhc-utils

Install today on CentOS 8 using yum

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

sudo yum -y install mhc-utils

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update mhc-utils

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade mhc-utils

How to Upgrade today 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 mhc-utils

How To remove today from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove mhc-utils

Extra info and code examples

MHC (Message Harmonized Calendaring system) is a personal schedule management system, that is designed to help those who receive most appointments via email. MHC has the following features: - You can easily import schedule articles from emails. - Simple data structure; schedule articles are stored in the same form of MH that allows you to manipulate stored data in many ways. - Powerful but simple expression of appointments. This package provides the command line/GUI utilities, today, gemcal, etc. To use MHC on emacsen, install the mhc package.

Conclusion

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

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