How To Install aha on CentOS 8

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aha is Convert terminal output to HTML

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aha on CentOS 8.

What is aha

aha parses output from other programs, recognizes ANSI terminal escape sequences and produces an HTML rendition of the original text.

We can use yum or dnf to install aha on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aha.

Install aha on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install aha using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install aha

Install aha on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install aha using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aha

How To Uninstall aha on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the aha package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove aha

aha Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/aha
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/f40c9d5459fb3ca821382eeb42d082341a0415
/usr/share/licenses/aha
/usr/share/licenses/aha/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/aha.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aha on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.

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